Foreigners who helped China fight against aggression
[2015-09-03 07:43]Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900-82), was a general in the former Soviet Union and was a military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek.
'Iron man' Dai Anlan honored by Allies
[2015-09-01 09:18]Dai Anlan, a prominent KMT Lieutenant-General and commander of the renowned 200th Division, was recognized even by his enemy and remembered and honored as a role model serviceman by the Allied forces.
Remembering 'nanjing's schindler'
[2015-09-01 07:45]Bernhard Arp Sindberg, a Danish laborer, and his colleagues saved 20,000 Chinese from the Japanese troops rampaging through the city.
Learning lessons of the past
[2015-09-01 07:45]Although he has retired, Dai Yuanzhi is never idle. The 64-year-old former China Youth Daily journalist has devoted more than 10 years to researching the history of Nanjing's biggest refugee camp,which housed more than 20,000 Chinese civilians during the 1937massacre in the city.
A war of words
[2015-08-31 07:49]
As China fought for its life during the Japanese occupation and World War II, Ye Junjian, a Chinese professor of English literature, joined the fray, but his battleground was Europe, not China, and his weapon was the spoken word, not the gun.
From horror stories to fairy tales
[2015-08-31 07:49]During his four years at Cambridge, Ye Junjian developed an extensive network of relationships with the top British intellectuals of the day, including economist John Maynard Keynes and the writers Leonard Woolf and Stephen Spender.
Chinese scholars at Cambridge
[2015-08-31 07:49]Ye Junjian wasn't the only wartime Chinese scholar in the UK with a connection to Cambridge University.
Kazakh WWII veteran urges remembrance of history, protection of peace
[2015-08-29 20:12]A Kazakh veteran who was a soldier of Soviet troops sent to Northeast China to fight Japanese aggressor troops shortly before the end of World War II urged people to remember history, and safeguard the hard-earned peace and stability.
Born in captivity, raised in freedom
[2015-08-27 07:36]On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Hong Kong's liberation from Japanese occupation, Dennis Clarke and George Cautherley revisited Stanley Internment Camp where their lives began.
Chinese risk lives building airports for Allies
[2015-08-26 10:17]The Chinese people built and maintained dozens of airports during World War II, providing for a massive airlift of fuel and supplies for Allied forces and serving as a crucial base to oppose Japanese aerial bombardments in the Asia-Pacific region.
Stone rollers tell story of sacrifice
[2015-08-26 07:45]Around 500,000 people near Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, worked to build landing strips for the US air force during World War II.
The spy who saved the Soviets
[2015-08-26 07:45]Yan Baohang, a wartime secret agent who is best remembered for an intervention that helped to bring Japan's occupation of China to an end.