Historic Photos
Chinese Resistance Against Japanese Aggressors in World War II
Left: Late in the
evening on January 28, 1932 Japanese troops launch an attack on Shanghai.
Right: Japanese army sets fire to countless villages in their "kill all, burn all and loot all" campaigns.
Japanese
troops captured Nanjing in December 1937 and embarked on a
campaign of
murder, rape
and looting. Left: Troops enter the
city. Right: Japanese troops buried many residents alive.
Left: Japanese troops
massacred countless people and threw them into mass graves. Shown are
bones of Chinese people killed in the Pindingshan Massacre in northeast China. Right: Ditch filled
with victims of Japanese massacre.
Left: During the "December 9 Movement" in 1935, Beijing students held mass rallies calling on
the people to resist Japan and liberate the country. Right: Women's self-defence team of Beishan
Village in Hebei Province.
Left:
Third detachment of the New Fourth Army fighting in
Tongling-Fanchang
area to stop the enemy from advancing west to Wuhan. Right: In
the
Spring of 1938, the New Fourth Army advanced to the Yangtze
river
valley, where they carried out guerilla war behind the enemy
lines and
set up Central China anti-Japanese democratic bases.
Left:
Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army kept up their fight against
the
invaders for long years in northeast China. Right: Mao
Zedong
(middle) and Zhu De (left) review troops assigned to participate
in the
general counteroffensive. At right the commander of the 359th
Brigade,
Wang Zhen.
Left:
Mao Zedong with the members of the Indian Aid China Medical Mission in
Yan'an on March 15, 1939: Mao Zedong (fifth from left), B.K. Basu
(left), D.S. Kotnis (second from left), D. Mukerji (fourth from left),
M. Atal (second from right) and M. Cholkar (right). Right:
Canadian doctor, Norman Bethune, operating on a wounded soldier of the
Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountains in October 1939.
Left:
In order to smash the Japanese army's blockade, a "Great
Production Movement" was organized in the liberated areas which
solved many of the problems caused by the Japanese blocking needed
goods. Right: People of Dalian rejoice as Soviet soldiers enter the
city in August 1945.
(Photos: An Illustrated History of China's War of Resistance Against Japan)
This article was published in
Volume 55 Number 33 - September 6, 2025
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