Untold stories of Chinese Nationalists’ fight against Japan in second world war recalled in Hong Kong exhibition
Intellectuals must stand for truth and justice, said an architect whose collection of historical documents telling of the Chinese Nationalists’ role in fighting the Japanese during the second world war is exhibiting at a museum in Hong Kong.
Intellectuals must stand for truth and justice, said an architect whose collection of historical documents telling of the Chinese Nationalists’ role in fighting the Japanese during the second world war is exhibiting at a museum in Hong Kong.
“Today we are dealing with more and more people who want to twist Chinese history,” said Taiwan-based architect Soong Shu-kong.
“As intellectuals, we must maintain our conscience. Only slaves ignore the truth and kowtow to those in power.”
The 53-year-old collector explained his philosophy as he told stories relating to his collection of rare artefacts, documents and calligraphies featured in “Mountains Ablaze: The Republic and the Sino-Japanese War 1912-1946”, the second instalment of an exhibition series of Soong's collection on modern Chinese history.
The exhibition covers the period after Dr Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing dynasty during the 1911 revolution until the end of the second Sino-Japanese War, showing more than 300 pieces of artworks and artefacts.
Today we are dealing with more and more people who want to twist Chinese history
These include calligraphy by revolutionaries such as Sun’s comrade Huang Xing, Chen Xiao-bai and Zhang Renjie, the financier of the 1911 revolution.