I had seenTravels With a Writing Brushon many book blogs focusing on Japanese literature. So exceptionally, I asked Santa for a print copy. This is a precious book, and I had to slow down my reading to better appreciate each page. ...
A Transpacific Peace Movement: Encounters Between American and Japanese Peace Advocates 1889-1919 This thesis explores the making of a transpacific peace movement linking peace advocates in Japan and the United States in the early twentieth century. It is based on research in the peace history coll...
He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1927. In 1937 Yang became leader of the North-east Anti-Japanese United Army and fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese invaders. In 1938, the Japanese army offered a large sum of money for Yang’s head and a large number of troops...
Yang Jingyu was an anti-Japanese hero, who died in a fight against Japanese troops. 2 Why did Yang decide to let small groups of his men break through the encirclement? Because at that time there was a critical lack of supplies. 3 What did the Japanese find when they killed Yang? They...
August is Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth). Even though I read a lot of books in translation throughout the year, I usually don’t participate in this event. BUT, I recently saw a fascinating post by Alison Fincher, featuring 31 Women Writing in Japanese. Among other things, Alison...
wasestablished,Yangwasreburiedwithfullmilitaryhonours,inTonghua,JilinProvince.1WhowasYangJingyu?YangJingyuwasananti-Japanesehero,whodiedinafightagainstJapanesetroops.2WhydidYangdecidetoletsmallgroupsofhismenbreakthroughtheencirclement?Becauseatthattimetherewasacriticallackofsupplies.3WhatdidtheJapanesefindwhentheykill...
3. what did the japanese find when they killed yang?4. how would you describe yang's spirit in your own words?step 2 while writing1. work in groups. talk about other war heroes and choose one to write about. finish activity 6 on p472. write an introduction to the war hero you ...
In 1937, because f the Japanese invasin, China’s three great universities had n chice but 1 (jin) tgether in Kunming as Natinal Suthwest Assciated University, therwise knwn as Lianda. The prfessrs and students in the three universities made an epic jurney, 2 (cver) a distance f ...
Asean: Alison Broinowski, ed. ASEAN into the 1990s. When did 'Asian Australian writing' come into existence? Answering this question is almost as difficult as deciding when people from the regions now known as Asia first arrived in Australia. We know, for example, that Chinese settlers fi....
Prfessrs and students alike⑫in the three universities made an epic jurney⑬ver a distance f mre than 2,000 kilmetres,[2]mst f them n ft.Their bed was the dusty rad and their rf was the pen sky,ften lit up⑭by explding Japanese bmbs.Cnditins were little better [3]nce they...