[LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White (L) with LIFE edit reporter Lee Eitingon, posing in Hindu saris]

Sinking new mine shaft.

[Actors in a propaganda play, Hankou, China]

[Young women being trained as Nationalist soldiers, Hankou, China]

Anna May Wong

Inside the cave the victim's kinfolk leaving flowers to lay on the unmarked graves of the 500 dead men.

[Group of people sitting on top on train, near the Xuzhou front, China]

[physician in lane holding lamp, gesturing to woman]