Partial Inventory of the Sha fei papers
Finding aid prepared by Leann Hagopian
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Sha Fei papers
Date (inclusive): 1937-1989
Collection Number: 2013C3
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Chinese
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes
(0.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Includes photographs, pictorial publications, correspondence, and printed matter relating to Sha Fei and his family members
and activities of the Red Army during Sino-Japanese War (1937-45).
Creator:
Sha, Fei, 1912-1950
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2012.
[Identification of item], Sha fei papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Sha Fei (1912-50) was a Chinese journalist and photographer. Born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Sha joined the Nationalist
Revolutionary Army under Chiang Kai-shek in 1925, working as a military radio operator in Southwest China. He then left the
Kuomintang Army to become a professional photographer in the 1930s. In October 1937, Sha Fei joined the Chinese Communist
Red Army and became a journalist, editor, and photographer in the communist-governed Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region in
North China. During the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), Sha Fei became the chief editor of a communist-run pictorial magazine
in the region, taking hundreds of photographs of Chinese communist activities in wartime North China. After the war, while
continuing his photographic and editorial career in North China, Sha Fei 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 pardoned by the Chinese Communist Party.
Scope and Content of Collection
Sha Fei's personal papers include early communist publications from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, rarely seen photos
taken by Sha Fei during and after the Sino-Japanese war, an unpublished manuscript about Sha Fei's life by his wife, and communist
documents relating to Sha Fei's career and activities. These historic materials provide us with a rare glimpse into the early,
and relatively unknown, Chinese communist activities in North China, depicting how the Chinese Communists survived and operated
in a border region other than the famous one dominated by Mao Zedong: the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in Northwest
China.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Journalists
China -- History -- 1937-1945
Journalism -- China
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Pictorial works
Zhongguo gong chan dang
box 1
Material not yet described
Incremental Materials
box 2
box 2