Great Wall Online Thousand Li Unmanned Area (Complete 5 Volumes)

Author: Hebei Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party History Research Institute
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: "In the south, there is the Nanjing Massacre; in the north, there is the 'No-Man's-Land' spanning thousands of miles." The 'No-Man's-Land' was established during the Anti-Japanese War by the Japanese invaders in the areas along the Great Wall through the means of "collecting villages together," forcing the local population into designated "group settlements," thereby creating a "no-residence prohibited zone." It was another major act of aggression and atrocities committed by the Japanese forces in China through brutal means. This book is a key publication for commemorating the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people's Anti-Japanese War. From 1939 to 1944, the Japanese forces created 'no-residence prohibited zones' from Shanhaiguan in the east to Laozhangba in Chifeng in the west, from Ningcheng and Weichang in the north to Qian'an and Zunhua in the south. The total area covered was as vast as 50,000 square kilometers, involving 25 counties across five provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions: Hebei, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, and Tianjin. Among them, more than 17,000 villages were gathered together, and 2,506 'human circles' were built, with approximately 1.4 million people forced into these settlements. During the creation of the 'No-Man's-Land,' the Japanese forces implemented a "root-and-branch destruction," extinguishing all vitality and taking their "three-all" policy to the extreme. Of the 350,000 Chinese compatriots from the Jirieliao region who were slaughtered and tortured by the Japanese forces, most died in the 'No-Man's-Land,' with its brutality not inferior to that of the Nanjing Massacre.