Inscription for a Group Photo of Some Comrades Who Participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising (May 1937)

The Autumn Harvest Insurrection of 1927 established the First Division of the First Army of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolutionary Army. Those who survive to this day number only a few dozen; this is one part of them.

Mao Zedong

May 1937, in the city of Yan’an

The Autumn Harvest Insurrection of 1927 established the First Division of the First Army of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolutionary Army. Those who survive to this day number only a few dozen; this is one part of them.

Inscription by Mao Zedong for a group photo of some comrades who participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising.

[1] This is the inscription written by Mao Zedong at the top of a photograph taken in May 1937 in Yan’an, when he took a group photo with 18 comrades who had participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising.

The Autumn Harvest Insurrection of 1927 established the First Division of the First Army of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolutionary Army. Those who survive to this day number only a few dozen; this is one part of them.

In May 1937, Mao Zedong took a group photo in Yan’an with some comrades who participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising.