From yellowed photos to decades-old documents, the Kuomintang's Party Archive Library is a rich source of historical records tracing the Nationalist-led forces' fight against the Japanese invasion of China.
In a commemorative exhibition at the library, large photos show in chronological order the start of the eight-year war against Japan with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937, as well as the victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang on April 6, 1938.
There are also pictorial and written accounts of the final stage of the war, when China joined the Allies after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour.
Chiang Kai-shek is seen in some photographs giving speeches to servicemen, while his wife, Madame Soong Mei-ling, solicits American support for the young China in the war against Japan.
The exhibition's pathos has been even greater since July 7, when the museum set up a display of rusty sabres used by Japanese soldiers to kill hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians during the infamous Rape of Nanking.
'That's where most viewers stop to give a moments' silence for those killed,' an exhibition guide said.
Library director Shao Ming-huang says the exhibition, due to continue until October 25, is not meant to renew people's pain and hatred towards Japan but to remind people of the lessons of history so that nothing similar happens again.