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Asia’s Last Day of Peace
Eighty years ago, Tuesday, July 6, 1937, was the last day of peace in Asia. The following day, Chinese and Japanese forces would clash at Marco Polo Bridge near the ancient capital of Beijing,...
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Battle for a Doomed City: Gaming Nanjing 1937 (Part 3)
This article, the last in a series of three, is an after-action report on a wargame based on the battle of Nanjing in 1937. The report is written by G. Jökull Gíslason, an Iceland-based wargamer and...
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Battle for a Doomed City: Gaming Nanjing 1937 (Part 2)
This article, the second in a series of three, is an after-action report on a wargame based on the battle of Nanjing in 1937. The report is written by G. Jökull Gíslason, an Iceland-based wargamer and...
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Battle for a Doomed City: Gaming Nanjing 1937 (Part 1)
This article is written by G. Jökull Gíslason, an Iceland-based wargamer and historian with a special interest in the Second Sino-Japanese War. It shows how wargames and simulations can add an extra...
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A Photographer in Shanghai: The Japanese
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 was the especially the cases in the...
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Asians in WWII Poster Art
Since the US engagement in World War II was to a significant extent directed towards Asia, it is no surprise that a large part of American poster art of the war years had Asian themes. The...
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A Photographer in Shanghai: Red Swastika
Hospital nurses, Shanghai During the three-month battle of Shanghai in 1937, volunteers of the Red Swastika Society were a ubiquitous sight, present wherever their help was needed. At hospitals, nurses...
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A Photographer in Shanghai: Soldiers (Part 2)
Nationalist soldier poses by sandbags, North Railway Station, Shanghai One of the most prolific foreign photographers during the three-month battle for Shanghai in 1937 was American-born Malcolm...
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A Photographer in Shanghai: Soldiers
Soldier at bomb damaged North Railway Station, Shanghai The battle of Shanghai in 1937 was unique in many ways. For example, it was recorded more exhaustively in the western media than any other battle...
View ArticleChinese Reeneactors on Film!
In the world of reenactment, China enthusiasts are a small, but dedicated and growing group. These videos, kindly provided by Ryan Daniels, are from a recent event in Massachusetts and clearly...
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Reenactors in Taiwan
Reenactment seems to be growing worldwide. Along with war gaming it is one of the ways that history enthusiasts can get a physical feel for the periods that they study in the books. An added value is...
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Shanghai: Wicked Old ‘Paris of the Orient’
“Keenly observant”, “riveting”, ” marvellous, microscopically descriptive” — the reviewers have rained down the superlatives on Canadian non-fiction writer Taras Grescoe’s new book Shanghai Grand:...
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Chinese or Japanese? Telling Friend From Foe
In early 1945, it was obvious that the Japanese had lost the war, but it was still unclear how much longer they would hold out or where the final stages of the conflict would be fought. Various...
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Strangers at the Gate
Scenes of despair unfolded as the Japanese army moved in on Shanghai in late 1937, spreading terror among the city’s three million civilians. Tens of thousands were thronging at the narrow gates...
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World War II Weekend!
From the World War Two Weekend at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, PA. The photos have kindly been provided by Ryan Daniels, a true expert on China’s long war from 1937 to 1945.
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What War Does to Human Hearts: Interview with Geling Yan
The Second Sino-Japanese War formed the backdrop for Chinese-born author Geling Yan’s novella 13 Flowers of War, which was adapted for the big screen as The Flowers of War. Now the legacy of the war...
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China’s War as History: A Paradox
How have western views of China’s role in World War Two changed over the past couple of decades? Recently, the Chinese website The Paper published an article on its history channel on this subject,...
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Morning Sun!
History buffs have been spending a large part of the time since 1945 gaming World War Two. It started out as board games, often made fiendishly complex in order to capture all the intricacies of...
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Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City
‘Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City’ by Peter Harmsen is now on sale. The sequel of his best-selling ‘Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze’, it tells the epic story of China’s desperate defense...
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Scenes of Death and Struggle at ‘China’s Alamo’
Recently we carried a series of photos from Shanghai’s restored Sihang Warehouse, taken by Yi Lee. On this page find some more pictures, courtesy of Yi Lee, from this historic site, where about 400...
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