The Civil War and the Japanese intervention in China (1937-1939)

The blades of the water pump rotate.

Women operate the pump with their feet.

Carrying the wounded on a stretcher-rocker.

Soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of China wash their uniforms and underwear on the river bank.

Fragments of the battle.

The legs of soldiers making a march.

The NRA unit is moving to the foothills of Jinggangshan.

A view of the mountain slope and the path along which the NRA unit climbs.

An NRA unit is on the march.

View of the area where the NRA unit is marching (from above).

Landscape of the Central Chinese foothills.

The NRA commander looks through binoculars.

NRA fighters in the ranks.

The commander rides along the line on horseback.

Preparation of staff documents.

Chinese rural landscape.

Views of the streets of Chinese cities behind the front line, cars and rickshaws on the streets.

Women with children in their arms look at the sky.

Panorama of the village, shell bursts.

Loading the wounded into an ambulance, providing first aid to the wounded.

Loading people on the ferry.

Peasant labor in the cultivation of rice fields.

Farmers during the threshing of rice.

Peasants at field work.

Plowing the land with a single-plow plow.

Harrowing the earth with a braided harrow.

A woman watches the rotation of the millstones of the mill.

View of a burning village.

Boiling kettle on Taganka.

Rickshaws on the streets of one of the Chinese cities located behind the front line.

Views of city streets (from above).

The legs of a running rickshaw.

Traffic controller at the intersection.

An infantry unit of the Japanese army takes up a position.

Rendering assistance to a wounded civilian.

Water in the irrigation canal.

The NRA unit is climbing into the mountains.

Panorama of burning villages.

Women and children are hiding in a disguised shelter from the Japanese.

View of the part of the city of Nuno in Hunan Province.

People on the streets of the city.

Residents of the city are going to a rally.

Passenger ships on the Yangtze River.

A sailing junk with refugees sails by.

Women sew quilted jackets for NRA fighters.

Sorting of quilted jackets.

Young NRA fighters take the oath.

The bugler gives a signal.

An NRA rifle unit during a tactical exercise.

A political worker speaks to the NRA fighters.

NRA fighters in the ranks (panorama).

Chinese NRA fighters transport military equipment over a water barrier with the help of mules.

A view of the mountain slope and the path along which the NRA unit climbs.

Children are sitting by their belongings on the street.

An NRA fighter is monitoring aerial targets.

View of the destroyed building.

NRA commanders at the observation post.

A peasant harrows the land.

A woman sifts flour.

A woman with things in her hands walks along the destroyed street.

Mao Zedong talks with the commanders.

Mao Zedong walks across the courtyard, sits down in a wicker chair, holding a newspaper in his hands.

Mao Zedong is reading a newspaper.

NRA fighters in the ranks.

NRA fighters carry children during the campaign.

Children and the elderly leave their homes, fleeing from the Japanese.

Rickshaws carry passengers in one of the cities of China.

The flow of a mountain river.

Processing of rice fields.

NRA units on the march after sunset.

Junks depart from the shore.

NRA fighters are sailing in junks.

The wheels of the irrigation system are turning in one of the villages.

Japanese planes fly by.

The woman leaves the danger zone.

The explosions of aerial bombs in the village.

Fires as a result of an air raid.

People are being evacuated on a junk.

An NRA unit enters the village.

Women with children are hiding in the forest.

A burning village house.

A man with a child in his arms looks at the fire.

Burning down village houses.

Photos of Soviet military specialists.

Mao Zedong reads a newspaper with a portrait of I. V. Stalin.

Rator speaks at a rally.

Soldiers of the NRA unit of China climb aboard the junk.

Mao Zedong talks with NRA fighters.

The thatched roof of the fanza is burning.

NRA fighters transport military equipment across the river with the help of mules.