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,...
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...
"In 1937 the second Sino-Japanese war broke out and the Japanese occupied parts of Shanghai and controlled the city. During that time the biggest wave of immigration of Jews to Shanghai was caused by the Nazis, mainly from Germany, Austria and Poland between 1937 and 1943. About 20,000 c...
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 ...
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...
40The final link in this chain of events was the outbreak of the Sino-Japanesewar in July 1937. First in the north, it was followed one month later by thefierce battle for Shanghai. Parks Coble writes that “The bloody Battle of Shang-hai would become the most intense conflict since ...
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...
s first cartoons produced specifically for young children — in 1935 and drew them until 1937, 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 ...
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...