A translation of Manifesto of the Communist Party was published in Shanghai.
Eighth Route Army soldiers celebrating victory on the Great Wall.
Mao Zedong went to Chongqing to talk with the Kuomintang government.
Private handicraftsmen turned to the socialist path by way of cooperatives.
Workers of the Daqing Oilfield at work.
A village-level organization signing a contract with peasants.
A village in an anti-Japanese base area destroyed by Japanese troops. After the fall of Guangzhou and Wuhan to Japanese troops, the war entered a period of stalemate. The Japanese army then began to concentrate its main forces on attacking anti-Japanese forces behind enemy lines.