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Blood Builds the Backbone: Records of the War of Resistance Against Japan
"When did we start fighting?" "If it's based on the War Letter, it's 1937; if it's based on blood and tears, it's 1931." From the first gunshot fired at Peking University Camp on September 18, 1931, to the trembling handwriting on the letter of surrender in Nanjing on September 9, 1945. Fourteen years of war, twenty-two battles involving mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and 115,000 guerrilla attacks that penetrated the bone marrow. This is a national epic engraved on the fault line of tim
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A Mourner on Paper: Historical Suffering in Understatement
Historical sufferings never belong only to the past. The thrills behind those "understatements" are the most profound questions about people's hearts and the times. When countless small sufferings are written into grand silence, when individuals are silently annihilated in the torrent of history, how should we face the truth behind the page? Listen to the lamentations that are buried deep under the quicksands of time - because sometimes, the deepest suffering is hidden in the shallowest ink mark
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