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 ...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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...
. 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 war....
Prior to the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), the Japanese had gained control over about half of the city’s yarn-spinning and textile-weaving capacity. The 1920s was also a period of growing political awareness in Shanghai. Members of the working class, students, and intellectuals ...
This small Jewish circle was affected in the early 1900s by a second wave of immigration that brought Russian Jews fleeing the pogroms (campaigns of repression) and, later, the Russian Revolution. Most settled in northern China. By 1910, Harbin had 1,500 Jews, but the number grew to 13,...
The work was apparently much used for the planning of the Second Anglo-French Expedition of 1860. Text in French. Marginal waterstaining to the first 60 or so pages that lessens as the pages turn. Also some marginal waterstaining to the last 30 pages or so. Rebound in new cloth. Priced...