Unique footage of ethnic Chinese in the Netherlands celebrating victory over Japan in September 1945. The Chinese community that existed during World War Two was made up of mostly laborers and students. A large number of the students were from the Dutch East Indies. Chinese in the Netherlands celebrate the victory , by Polygoon-Profilti (producer)…
For a brief moment, the titanic struggle between China and Japan at Shanghai in 1937 suddenly became very personal to the western public. This was when 25-year-old British soldier Patrick McGowan was killed by the Japanese while on duty on the outskirts of the city’s International Settlement. His niece’s long search for the truth about…
The war between China and Japan that broke out in 1937 was a modern media war involving the international press as an actor in the game for public opinion. This was especially the case in the early stages of the war, when it was waged over cities along the Chinese east coast easily reached by…
The war between China and Japan that broke out in 1937 was a modern media war involving the international press as an actor in the game for public opinion. This was especially the case in the early stages of the war, when it was waged over cities along the Chinese east coast easily reached by…
The war between China and Japan that broke out in 1937 was a modern media war involving the international press as an actor in the game for public opinion. This was especially the case in the early stages of the war, when it was waged over cities along the Chinese east coast easily reached by…
Not much has been published about the Chinese war in Burma from 1942 and 1945, and at the same time little is known about the dangerous operations carried out by special forces in that particular theater. No wonder, then, that unconventional Chinese warfare in Burma is a white spot in the existing historiography. Dr. Richard…
This article about a little-known aspect of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the role of western doctors with previous experience from the Spanish Civil War, was written by Dr. Carles Braso Broggi, an Assistant Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, who is preparing a book on the subject. The article was first published on the…
Englishman Stuart Heaver, a former Naval officer and now a full-time freelance writer, has just published an engaging piece in the South China Morning Post about the 1937 Nanjing massacre and how it was perceived in Hong Kong and the West (read it here). As part of his research, he interviewed Peter Harmsen, author of…
Marking the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Nanjing and the Nanjing Massacre this December, the new English translation of “Yang Dapeng: Remembrance of a Martyr in Nanjing 1937” is being released. Originally written in 1975 by the late Shu-Chin Yang, the book commemorates the author’s brother Yang Dapeng who died defending Nanjing as a…
Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s was a highly cosmopolitan place, and as war forced borders to seal up and travel to become dangerous or impossible, the city was the end station for a growing number of nationalities who had nowhere else to go. It was a place full of strangers whose story was shrouded…
