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Website title: China in WW2 – Peter Harmsen’s blog on the 1931-45 conflict and the birth of modern Asia

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Foreign observers who arrived in the Chinese capital of Nanjing in early September 1945 for the handover of power from the Japanese occupation forces to the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek noticed something odd: The city, where the Japanese had carr...


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Most are familiar with the portrait of Mao Zedong, the founder of communist China, hanging over the entrance of Tiananmen, the Gate of Heavenly Peace, in Beijing. It was not always like that. From October 1945, to mark the recent defeat of Japan, the image...


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