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...
Early-twentieth-century China was a country in turmoil, witnessing such events as the Boxer Rebellion, the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War. Of these events, the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), which resulted in the Japanese occupation of ...
Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese during the second Sino-Japanese War, and the city’s industrial plants suffered extensive war damage. In the brief interim before the fall of Shanghai to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the Chinese communists in 1949, the city’s economy suffered...
Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese during the second Sino-Japanese War, and the city’s industrial plants suffered extensive war damage. In the brief interim before the fall of Shanghai to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the Chinese communists in 1949, the city’s economy suffered...
Specifically, this thesis investigates why and how the Japanese military controlled one independent U.S. journalist John B. Powell and his journal in Shanghai during the second Sino-Japanese War, August 1937 through December 1941. Powell's case exemplified the dilemma facing independent journalists ...
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,...
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ww2dbaseThe Second Battle of Shanghai, known in Chinese as Battle of Songhu, was the first major engagement in the Second Sino-Japanese War. General Zhang Zhizhong was the commanding officer in charge of the defense of the region, and for some time had been training men for such an attack...
The Japanese Ambassador In 1936, Japan’s influence was growing: Manchuria (‘Manchukuo’) had been occupied since 1931, and the Second Sino-Japanese War, which would see the Chinese sections of Shanghai occupied, was just a year away. That year, the Little White House on Route Pichon had...
This Day in History: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident On July 7, 1937, the cataclysmic event that led to the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. PHOTOS: Take a Look at the Real Santa's Workshop How your Christmas decorations are made. Useful Mandarin Phrases: Thanksgiving A list...