Second Sino-Japanese War

3 Mar 2013

This superb new volume details the extensive back-story which led up to the global outbreak of war with Japan in 1941, and Hong Kong's vital but under-recognised connections to this event over...

Caring for history's forgotten men

1 Apr 2012

Sun Mian, the publisher of New Weekly Magazine, a fashionable news and lifestyle magazine based in Guangzhou, has not worried about the editorial work of the magazine for years. He spends a great...

The Flowers of War

5 Feb 2012

The Flowers of War
by Yan Geling
translated by Nicky Harman
Harvill Secker

Party colour on parade in KMT's old town

6 Jul 2011

Chongqing, the temporary capital of the Kuomintang - the Communist Party's rival - during the war against Japan in the 1940s is planning to make itself an important centre of revolutionary history...

letters

29 Mar 2011

Don't use history to read Japan's tragedy

Although the Japan earthquake and tsunami destroyed many people's homes and families, the Japanese stayed calm in the midst of this...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Envoy in sensitive Nanjing visit

The Japanese ambassador to China, Uichiro Niwa, arrived in Nanjing yesterday on a three-day visit, seen by Chinese and Japanese media as a sign of improving ties between the two countries.

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Sino-Japanese war remembered amid concern truth is distorted

China staged official commemorations yesterday marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the second Sino-Japanese war, but a senior People's Liberation Army officer says Beijing has been...

Slice of Life

From the South China Morning Post this week in: 1933

Berlin, May 4

Truth and reconciliation

Tiny flakes of snow fall from a pearly grey sky outside Fan Jianchuan's giant storehouse of history in Anren, Sichuan province.

Nanjing remembrance likely to be peaceful

70th anniversary of wartime massacre comes amid improved Sino-Japanese ties

The mainland will mark the 70th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre tomorrow, but a recent warming in...

Unravelling the knots of Nanking

Acrop of new movie releases to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre is again set to dredge up controversy surrounding one of the 20th century's most notorious and disputed events....