As China commemorates the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, a rare collection of photographs documenting the historic expedition from 1934 to 1936 has come to light.
In an earlier interview, reporters from China's Xinhua News Agency learned that an extensive collection of materials left by Helen Foster Snow, an American journalist and the wife of Edgar Snow – a US journalist who brought the story of the Long March to the world – has been preserved at Brigham Young University (BYU) in the US.
In 1937, Helen Snow risked her life to travel to Yan'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, where she spent more than four months interviewing people in the region. Her works include Inside Red China, the sequel to Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China. She took with her the documents, manuscripts and photographs she had collected when she left China.
Helen Snow died in 1997. In accordance with her wishes, a large collection of her archival materials and photographs was donated to BYU.
To mark the 90th anniversary, Xinhua reporters went to the university's library, uncovering a collection of precious photographs documenting the Long March, including two particularly rare images.