Taierzhuang!

Below are photos and excerpts from an article about the 1938 battle of Taierzhuang, based on a visit to the Chinese city. Written by G. Joekull Gislason, a Sinophile from … Continue Reading →

‘Moving and Fluent Narrative’: Chinese WW2 Periodical Reviews ‘Shanghai 1937’

Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze by Peter Harmsen is “a moving and fluent narrative which describes a desperate and bitter battle in vivid prose.” That’s according to the influential … Continue Reading →

China’s Best Ambassador

Song Meiling, China’s First Lady during the war, was her country’s best ambassador by far. “China’s Joan of Arc,” she was called, and “the most powerful woman in the world.” … Continue Reading →

Time Travel in Cyberspace

This article about a new project to chronicle World War Two in Asia in real time was first published on the website of the Danish Broadcasting Corp. It was written … Continue Reading →

Iacta Alea Est!

Wargaming is a method for historians, professionals and hobbyists alike, to get inside the minds of the actors of past conflicts. The games, or simulations, can take place at the … Continue Reading →

More Than A Thousand Characters

With their immediate impact and their appeal to the emotions, images have been used in war propaganda since ancient times. Therefore, it’s no surprise that they were employed in China … Continue Reading →

‘Evergreen’

China and Germany were involved in close military cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s, manifested for example in the dispatch of a small but influential corps of German advisors to … Continue Reading →

Deadly Clash at Marco Polo Bridge

Seventy-seven years ago, on July 7, 1937, Chinese and Japanese soldiers clashed at Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing. Although no one could know it at the time, it was the … Continue Reading →

Chinese War Graves in India

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and western positions in East Asia in December 1941, China became a full-blown member of the Allied war effort against the axis. This … Continue Reading →

Shanghai Battle in Scale 1/35

History in perhaps its broadest sense means finding what can be known about the past and presenting the facts in the form of a coherent narrative. That narrative doesn’t have … Continue Reading →