Edgar Snow photograph of Muslim Zhonggue ren min jie fang jun soldiers, 1936

Item — Box: 148, Folder: 21

Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 2 Item 6358

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Dates

Creation: 1936

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

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Extent

1 photograph : black and white ; 16 x 16 cm

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

Item- and file-level inventory available online.http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2219.xml

General

Former item number 2995.

General

Note on verso: "88. Mohammedan troops of the People's Liberation Army. Several million Chinese Mohammedans live in China's Northwest, and Chiang Kai-shek hoped to use their religious antagonisms against Chinese to stop the Red Army in their territory. But the Chinese Soviets guaranteed them religious freedom, and in addition gave them complete autonomy, driving out the Kuomintang tax-collectors, and 'liquidating' the Chinese usurers among them, as well as giving the peasatns arms to fight their own Mohammedan landlords. These are the answers to many a Mohammedan congregation's prayers, and instead of ther fierce 'holy war' against the Bolshevik Chinese predicted by Nanking's generals, Moslem and Chinese Reds are uniting on a common platform of 'Down with Japanese Imperialism,' and 'Down with the Tax-Collecting Kuomintang!' This is a Red Mohammedan company in a village near Weichow, Ninghsia Province. Photo by Edgar Snow, 1936."