Conversation during a Meeting with the Indian Medical Team to China at the Fenghuangshan Residence[1]

(March 15, 1939)

We eat millet, we carry rifles, yet we are full of confidence that we shall defeat Japan’s powerful armed forces.

[1] This is part of a conversation Mao Zedong had over a meal with Dr. M. Atal, Dr. M. R. Cholkar, Dr. D. S. Kotnis, Dr. B. K. Basu, and Dr. D. Mukerji—the five doctors of the Indian Medical Team to China—at his Fenghuangshan residence.

March 15, 1939, Mao Zedong and all members of the Indian Medical Team to China pose for a group photograph.

March 15, 1939, Mao Zedong hosts a banquet for the Indian Medical Team to China, which has arrived in Yan’an.