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Xi'an County Town Center
A 1930s picture taken by a Japanese photographer shows Xi’an county’s town center (today part of Liaoyuan city, Jilin Province), which was the nearest town to Dr. Chang’s home village. Notice the bilingual billboard in the middle, which juxtaposes…
Japanese Troops in Manchuria
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.
Tsinghua University in 1930
Glass lantern slide, "Ch'ing Hua College", Tsinghua University in parkland, hand coloured glass / paper, maker unknown, China / Australia, c.1930
Hand colored glass lantern slide showing the parkland of Tsinghua University in Peking. The building…
Hand colored glass lantern slide showing the parkland of Tsinghua University in Peking. The building…
A Monoplane Designed by Chieh-Chien Chang
A monoplane designed by Chieh Chien Chang and Yin Wenyou. Tsinghua University’s Grand Auditorum is in the background.
West Point World War II Map
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,…
Scientists Ludwig Prandtl, Qian Xuesen, and Theodore von Karman
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…
Wartime Alliance
The American comic book Real Heroes published a feature story of Chiang Kai-shek in its May 1942 issue.