Alice Chong sitting on the bumper of a British truck in Shanghai in February or March of 1938. This is after the evacuation of many Ginling College girls to Shanghai, fleeing the violence of the Japanese attack on Nanjing in the preceding two months. Many other Ginling College (金陵女子大学) girls are also in the photo.
Alice led the Ginling College girls more than 2,500 miles through Japanese-occupied China to safety in Chengdu, Sichuan, talking her way through numerous Japanese roadblocks, and surviving numerous bombings by the Japanese.
(Images and information primarily courtesy of Brian Dillon.)