Edgar Snow photograph of a Chinese Communist citadel in Ningxia, 1936

Item — Box: 148, Folder: 8

Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 2 Item 6188

Staff Only

Dates

1936

Language of Materials

Materials in English and Chinese.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to use material from this collection must be obtained from the Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.

Extent

1 photograph : black and white ; 16 x 16 cm

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 3056.

General

Note on verso: "122. Red Citadel in Ninghsia Province. 'Tao Chi Shi-yeh' or the Trading Post of Messers. Tao and Chu, read the letters carved above this former fortification of Ma Hung-kuei, Kuomintang General in the Northwest, ousted by the Reds. It has now become a strong Red outpost near the Mongolian frontier. Standing in the archway are several of the most brilliant young commanders of the First Front Red Army: Left to right are: Teng Hua, Chairman of the Political Department, 2d Div. 1st Army Corps, graduate of the Red Academy in Kiangsi; next is Nieh Jung-chen, political commissar of the First Army Corps, next is Tso Chuan, acting Commander of the First Army Corps; the fourth figure is unknown; fifth is Cheng Ken, handsome and famous commander of the undefeated 1st Division of the First Army Corps; next is Nieh Ho-t'ing, 28-year-old Chief of Staff of the First Front Army, participant in the 1927 Nanchang Uprising which began the Red revolution in China; last figure unknown to the photographer."