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 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 just days before the war broke out, as calmly and peacefully as she had for many years. The sails of ships moving back and forth in the Liaohang Bay, just like in the past, but alongside this peaceful scene, the sound of Chinese soldiers' drills tells us that the war imposed upon us by a ruthless neighbor was already very close.