1937: Shadows on the Brink of War

Author: Sun Mingjing
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
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 how, as the government's compromise with Japan failed, were they preparing to fight to the death against the well-armed Japanese invaders? In the old photographs shown in this book, we can see a farmer woman grinding rice in the suburbs of Xuzhou a few days before the war broke out, as composed and at ease as she had been for many years. The rows of sails in the Liaodong Bay of Lianyungang continued to move about as they always had. But beside this peaceful scene, the sound of Chinese soldiers' drills told us that war, imposed by a ruthless neighboring country, was already near.