Illustrations
Except when noted otherwise, these photographs were taken by the Rev. Claude Pickens, Jr., during two trips to northwest China in the 1930s. He traveled on horseback all over the Hezhou, Xunhua, Xining, and Ningxia regions and took thousands of photographs. The entire collection is deposited with the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University.
1. Eroded, dry eastern Gansu hill country
2. The Bayanrong valley in Huangzhong
5. Muslim grandmother and child
8. A view from the Muslim suburb (Bafang) to the Hezhou wall
9. Ahong of a mosque at Guyuan, Gansu
10. Muslim schoolboys with books and bone “slates”
11. A gongbei (Sufi saint’s tomb) at Pingliang, Gansu
14. Ma Mingxin’s memorial marker at his gongbei in Banqiao
15. A large hilltop fort (zhaizi) near Xunhua
17. An arch (pailou) in honor of Ma Anliang
18. Gatehouse of a Sino-Arabic school near Ningxia
19. A Yunnan Muslim on pilgrimage to Gansu
22. Grave of Ma Yuanzhang and his son at Xuanhuagang
23. Young men selling “Muslim” flatbreads and crocheting white caps