Helen Foster Snow photograph of Chou Yang-ch'ing, 1937

Item — Box: 149, Folder: 16

Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 2 Item 6880

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Dates

Creation: 1937

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

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Extent

1 photograph : black and white ; 11 x 11 cm

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

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General

Note on verso: "424 and 425. THE YOUNGEST "SHAO KUEI" in the Red Acadmy is Chou Yang-ch'ing at 12, a cowherd turned revolutionary. When the Reds came to his home in Nankiang, Szechuan, he joined the "Children's Brigade" together with 1,000 other boys. In April, 1933, with only six others of these boys he started on the Long March with the 4th Front Army and was wounded by a man Tzu tribesman in the Great Grasslands. He spent the winter in Tibet, where he was set to work knitting woollen stockings for the army. Arriving in North Shensi in 1936, he is now a shao kuei orderly to the head of the Motor School, Liu Ting. There are 400 such boys in the Academy, of whom he is the youngest. They are under military discipline and have their own organization. Photo by Nym Wales, 1937."