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...
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I have been interested in the Second Sino-Japanese War for the past 15 years, and it’s been a source of constant wonder to me that there is so little literature about the subject in English and other western language. After all, it’s not exactly a small part of the war. China tied...
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,...
Before July1937, which marked the beginning of the so-called “undeclared war” (the Sino-Japanese War), fully half of China’s modern factories were in Shanghai;25doc-tors of Chinese and western medicine, professionals of many kinds as well asinvestors, publishers and writers flocked to ...
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...
Right. But I think, more so, it’s to do with the dark days of the Second World War. Her husband was part of the collaborationist puppet government, the Wang Jingwei regime.Lust Cautionis one of the few novels that talks about that issue in China. Even today, it’s not something th...
second factor was a game design consideration. The unpredictability of minor countries was a key feature of the Totaler Krieg game system, and back when we only had “one” China on the map we felt that our Pacific game (which didn’t have an official title yet) was really lacking ...
when the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War led Zhang to leave Shanghai as a member of a cartoonist propaganda troupe. He traveled all over China during the war, finally returning to Shanghai in 1945, and quickly returned also to his Sanmao character, producing a new series of cartoons that...
The exile Shanghainese filmmakers and actors as a result of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Communist revolution contributed enormously to the development of the Hong Kong film industry. Many aspects of Shanghainese popular culture ("Shanghainese Pops") were transferred to Hong Kong by the...