Patients being cared for at base hospital of General Feng Yuxiang, Beijing, China, 1926

Description

"A section of one of the wards" A Western nurse is caring for a wounded soldier as a Chinese man looks on. Another soldier is awaiting treatment
Feng Yu Hsiang held various military positions under the Ch'ing dynasty. He was called the "Christian General" following his conversion to Methodism in 1914 . From 1920 to 1926 he struggled with Wu P'ei-fu and Chang Tso-lin for the control of North China and Manchuria. He supported the Nationalists and became minister of war and vice chairman of the Executive Yuan at Nanjing in 1928. By 1930 he had broken with Chiang Kai-shek and had launched an unsuccessful military campaign against him.

Title:

Record ID:

impa-m3480

Names & Dates

Created:

1926

Creator:

[photographer] unknown

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Hospitals , Medical treatment , group portraits , Methodist Episcopal Church. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society , Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948

Coverage:

1926

Place:

[cities] Peking
[countries] China

Relationships

Part Of:

[series] Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
[collection] Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
[series] Mary Porter Gamewell Papers
[series] China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

photographs

Previous Formats:

photographic prints, 6.2 x 10.1 cm.

Access

Rights:

Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library

Repository:

Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Divinity.Library@yale.edu

Ordering:

http://www.library.yale.edu/div/reproductions.html

Identifiers

Record ID:

impa-m3480

Source:

[record id] YDS/RG008/073/0001/0053