Sha Fei 沙飛 papers, 1933-2017

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Summary

Creators:
Sha, Fei, 1912-1950
Abstract:
The Sha Fei 沙飛 papers (1933-2017) include photographs, pictorial publications, correspondence, and printed matter relating to Sha, his family members, and the activities of the Chinese Communist Party's Red Army in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in Northwest China during Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
Extent:
4 manuscript boxes (1.3 Linear Feet)
Language:
Chinese
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sha Fei 沙飛 papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

Sha Fei 沙飛's personal papers include early communist publications from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, rarely seen photographs taken by Sha during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) depicting soldiers working alongside people in the countryside, an unpublished manuscript about Sha's life written by his wife, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) documents relating to his career, as well as his official posthumous pardon from 1986. These historic materials provide a rare glimpse into the early, and relatively unknown, CCP wartime activities in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in Northwest China.

Biographical / historical:

Sha Fei 沙飛 (沙飞) (1912-1950) was a Chinese journalist and photographer. Born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Sha joined the Nationalist Revolutionary Army under Chiang Kai-shek in 1925 and worked as a military radio operator in Southwest China. In the 1930s, he then left the Kuomintang Army to become a professional photographer. In October 1937, Sha joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Red Army and acted as journalist, editor, and photographer in the communist-controlled Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region in Northwest China. During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), Sha became the chief editor of a pictorial magazine in the region, taking hundreds of wartime photographs depicting CCP activities in the region. After the war, while continuing his photographic and editorial career, Sha became increasingly mentally unstable. In March 1950, he shot his Japanese doctor to death and was convicted of murder. He was executed later that year, at the age of thirty-eight. In the 1980s, Sha Fei was officially pardoned by the Chinese Communist Party.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2012.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sha Fei 沙飛 papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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