
A portrait of Rewi Alley as a young man. Intrigued by what he had
read about China, Alley left New
Zealand in December 1926 ‘to go and have a look at the
Chinese revolution’. He would stay for 60 years, becoming one of China's best-known and best-loved foreigners.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference:1/2-036405-F
Photographer: Gordon Burt
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