A Photographer in Shanghai: The French, Part 2
- By Peter Harmsen
- 25 March, 2018
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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 … Continue Reading →
A Photographer in Shanghai: The French, Part 1
- By Peter Harmsen
- 11 March, 2018
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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 … Continue Reading →
Cloak and Dagger in the Jungle
- By Peter Harmsen
- 27 January, 2018
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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 … Continue Reading →
The ‘Spanish Doctors’ in China
- By Guest blogger
- 6 January, 2018
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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 … Continue Reading →
Nanjing 1937: Q&A with Peter Harmsen
- By Guest blogger
- 30 December, 2017
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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 … Continue Reading →
A Nanjing Martyr
- By Guest blogger
- 9 December, 2017
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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 … Continue Reading →
The Mystery Man
- By Guest blogger
- 5 November, 2017
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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 … Continue Reading →
The Heroism of ‘Wee Paddy’: New Documentary on Shanghai Battle
- By Peter Harmsen
- 1 October, 2017
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British soldier Patrick McGowan was just 25 when he was killed by Japanese bullets during the battle of Shanghai in the fall of 1937. McGowan, of the Royal Ulster Rifles, … Continue Reading →
The Missing Airmen
- By Guest blogger
- 20 September, 2017
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Daniel Jackson, author of Famine, Sword, and Fire: The Liberation of Southwest China in World War II, recently visited China in search of the remains of US air crews missing … Continue Reading →
A Photographer in Shanghai: The Americans
- By Peter Harmsen
- 10 September, 2017
- 5 Comments
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 … Continue Reading →
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