Japan had been at war with China since 1937 in what has been named the Second Sino-Japanese War when China finally mounted resistance to the Japanese invasion of its territory in 1931. But it wasn’t until December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan), Japan declared war on the United States,...
Museum commemorating a defensive action of Zhabei against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War (precursor to World War II). Chiang Kai-shek chose this location for a symbolic stand because it was near the British Concession directly across Suzhou Creek, hoping that the up-close ...
Opened in 2015, the Sihang Warehouse Memorial Museum is an architectural relic of the fierce and famous "Defense of Sihang Warehouse," which took place in the 1937 Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Regarding the warehouse as a national war icon lost and found, I ...
Liu Cuigang flew his first combat mission of the Second Sino-Japanese War, attacking Japanese warships at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the Shanghai area in eastern China in a Hawk III fighter. The mission was called off due to weather. [Liu Cuigang | Shanghai | CPC]13...
In 1932, it was bombed by Japanese troops. Now, the site stands as a two-floored wood-brick memorial restored to its original look a century ago. It integrates the elegance of Jiangnanstyle gardens with Shanghai’s typical shikumen stone-gated architectural style. ...
In 1932, it was bombed by Japanese troops. Now, the site stands as a two-floored wood-brick memorial restored to its original look a century ago. It integrates the elegance of Jiangnanstyle gardens with Shanghai’s typical shikumen stone-gated architectural style. ...
The Great Helmsman Mao Zedong lived here in the latter half of 1924 with his second wife, Yang Kaihui, and their two children at the time, Anying and… Login Martyr's Cemetary & Memorial Shanghai This park marks the site of an old Kuomintang prison, where 800 communists, intellectuals and...
In 1932, it was bombed by Japanese troops. Now, the site stands as a two-floored wood-brick memorial restored to its original look a century ago. It integrates the elegance of Jiangnanstyle gardens with Shanghai’s typical shikumen stone-gated architectural style. The former site of The Comm...
Wandering through the historic Marco Polo Bridge, the site of the 1937 skirmish that ignited the Second Sino-Japanese War Visiting Linhai and Quzhzou, where Doolittle Raiders received lifesaving treatment in 1942 Exploring Jewish historical areas in Shanghai and the Sihang Warehouse, where 800 Chine...
rampant. Still, since the Japanese refused its Nazi allies’ request to deport or murder them, the Jews living there were spared the fate of the six million who were exterminated in the Holocaust, and the Chinese residents fared better than the 35 million who perished in the Sino-Japanese ...