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Language
English
Description
"China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students, faculty, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China's western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the student refugees who are at risk: Lian and her classmates...
2) Air strike
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As a U.S. Army colonel trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters, a hotheaded pilot begs to fly a powerful bomber that could stop the attacks. Meanwhile, a team of spies and refugees must carry a game-changing decoder device through the war-torn countryside.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
During the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army. Based on an incredible true story about events leading up to World War II.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The entire epic of Wing Chun Grandmaster Ip Man's extraordinary life: from defending his morals by not teaching martial arts to Japanese soldiers in WWII, to trying to open his own studio in British-occupied Hong Kong, and finally standing up to a crooked organization which would overrun his studio and the city. Dramatized version of the life of Bruce Lee's legendary mentor.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Kawashima Yoshiko (1906-1948) was an enigmatic Manchu princess whose life mirrored in many ways Japanese-Chinese relations in the first half of the 20th century. She was born into the Qing dynasty in China--the fourteenth daughter Prince Su--but grew upin Japan, after being given up for adoption to promote her father's political causes. Her fame was caught up with the fate of the puppet state set up by the Japanese in Manchuria during the 1930s (Manchukuo)....
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