Shadows on the Battlefield's Edge in 1937

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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Have you ever wondered what China was like before the "July 7th Incident" in 1937? What were the common people, soldiers, and intellectuals doing? And as the government's compromise with Japan failed, how did they prepare to fight to the death against the heavily armed Japanese invaders? In the old photographs shown in this book, we can see a peasant woman grinding rice in the suburbs of Xuzhou a few days before the war broke out, as calmly and peacefully as in years past. The sails of ships moving back and forth in the Liaohang Bay, just like in the old days. However, alongside this peaceful scene, the sound of gunfire from Chinese military exercises tells us that the war imposed on us by a ruthless neighbor was already very close.