The North American premiere of "Dead To Rights," a Chinese historical film about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, was held Wednesday night at a cinema near Washington, D.C., resonating strongly with the audience.
A delegation of 18 diplomats from 16 Asian countries visited the Datong Mass Graves Memorial in Shanxi province on Wednesday.
It's an unremarkable enameled tin mug - rusted, with peeling paint and a misshapen rim. Yet it now rests with reverence on a piece of red cloth, encased in glass, as a centerpiece of the Shandong Museum's latest exhibition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Eighty years ago, 30-year-old British journalist and educator George Hogg actively engaged in China's fight against Japanese invaders and gave his young life when leading a transfer of Chinese students to a safer place in northwestern China's Gansu province in 1945.