Helen Foster Snow photograph of Cheng Fangwu, 1937

Item — Box: 150, Folder: 11

Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 2 Item 7222

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Dates

Creation: 1937

Language of Materials

Materials in English and Spanish.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

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Extent

1 photograph : black and whtie ; 11 x 9 cm

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

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General

Note on verso: "420. Ch'eng Fang-wu, famous in China as the best Marxist literary critic. In August, 1936 he was reported executed by the Kuomintang armies, but this was untrue and he is very much alive in this picture taken at the "communist party School" in Yen-an where he is Dean and a teacher of Marxism to Party members. Now 41, Cheng joined the Red Army in 1931 at the time several Left writers were executed by the Government. He is the only imporant Chinese writer to have joined the Red Army in Kiangsi. Before the Long March began Cheng was very ill with malaria and stomach trouble--the March cured him he says, and he is now well. He was once one of the important members of the Creationist Literary Society in China. Photo by Nym Wales, 1937."