Collection of Folk Songs from Southwest China

A collection of 700+ folk songs from southwest China compiled by a National Southwest Associated University student as a member of the Hunan-Guizhou-Yunnan Marching Brigade (or "Bu Xing Tuan") during a 68-day trek from Changsha to Kunming in 1938. After the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in July 1937, three leading universities in north China-Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University-were forced to move southward to Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, and formed the