A rare photo in 1975 shows Tsinghua University’s Jeffersonian auditorium during the Cultural Revolution. The Chinese characters above the main entrance repeat the mantra of the decade: “Long Live Chairman Mao.” Dr. Chang might have noticed this…
Dr. Chang explaining his Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (left) and Nimbus (right) satellite designs for NASA to the Catholic University of America's Rector McDonald.
A 1946 picture shows a rare moment of relaxation during George Marshall’s foredoomed mediation campaign between the Communist and Nationalist Forces in China. Second from the left stands China’s future leader for twenty-seven years, Mao Zedong.…
Left to right: Ludwig Prandtl (German scientist), Qian Xuesen (Chinese scientist), Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian-American scientist). Prandtl served for Germany; von Kármán and Qian served for US Army; after 1955, Qian served for China (Qian was…
A 1944 map showing Japanese occupation of eastern China. Kunming is at the Southwest corner of the map. The map is believed to have been included in The West Point Atlas of American Wars, vol. II, 1900-1953, edited by Colonel Vincent Esposito,…
Japanese troops in an unidentified city in northeastern China, circa September to October 1931. Notice the Chinese street signs and the Japanese national and military flags.