TheoryChina-THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY IN THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S WAR OF RESISTANCE AGAINST JAPANESE AGGRESSION AND THE WORLD ANTI-FASCIST WAR

China holds 3rd press briefing on victory anniversary events

China holds 3rd press briefing on victory anniversary events

China to host world leaders for V-Day commemorations

China to host world leaders for V-Day commemorations

Xi pays tribute to martyrs in resistance war against Japanese aggression

Xi pays tribute to martyrs in resistance war against Japanese aggression

China to hold gala marking 80th anniversary of victory against Japanese aggression, fascism

China to hold gala marking 80th anniversary of victory against Japanese aggression, fascism

The Chinese War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-1945)was a just war waged by the Chinese people in opposition to Japanese militarist aggression. It was also an important part of the Global War against Fascism in which China was the main battlefield in the East.This was the first time in China's modern history that a great nation alliberation war against foreign aggression ended in total victory.

1927, Japanese Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka (third from the right) presides over the Eastern Conference of the Cabinet. A policy of aggression against China is drawn up at the conference.

1931, Japan manufactures the September 18th Incident. The photograph shows invading Japanese troops shooting down onto the city of Shenyang from the city walls.

September 22, 1931, the CPC Central Committee adopts the Resolution of the CPC Central Committee on the Incident of Japanese Imperialists Seizing Northeast China, calling on the Chinese people to pu...

Following the September 18th Incident, students from all over China travelled to Nanjing to petition the KMT Central Executive Committee, demanding the deployment of troops to fight the Japanese. Pi...

March 1933, the Chinese army launches a campaign in defense of the Great Wall. The photograph shows soldiers of the 29th Army defending Luowenyu.

1935, December 9th Movement, Beiping. The photograph shows students speaking to Beiping residents.

Soldiers of the Northeast United Resistance Army endure tough conditions to fight Japanese aggression.

December 1936, Xi'an Incident. After handling the incident on behalf of the CPC Central Committee, Zhou Enlai (fourth from the right) returns to Yan'an to a welcome from Mao Zedong (fifth from the r...

July 1937, Mao Zedong mobilizes attendees at a meeting in Yan'an to resist Japanese aggression.

July 1937, the Japanese Army provokes the Lugou Bridge Incident. Chinese soldiers charged with defending the town of Wanping rush to fight the Japanese.

July 8, 1937, the CPC Central Committee issues a public telegram about the Japanese Army’s attack at Lugou Bridge, calling on the people of China to rise in resistance.

July 1937, Lushan, Chiang Kai-shek speaks on the need to resist Japanese aggression.

Spring 1938, Mao Zedong works on his"On Protracted War" in Yan'an.

September 1937, soldiers of the Eighth Route Army cross the Yellow River at Zhichuan Town, Hancheng County, Shaanxi Province, and rush eastward to the front to fight the Japanese.

September 1937, the Eighth Route Army secures victory at Pingxingguan. The photograph shows Eighth Route Army soldiers moving into areas behind enemy lines following the battle.

October 1937, the "Eight Hundred Heroes" fight stubbornly to hold on to Sihang Warehouse during the Battle of Shanghai.

1938, Tai'erzhuang following a bloody battle.

June 1938, flooding ensues in Huayuankou after dikes are blown open on the Yellow River.

New Fourth Army guerrillas in action south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

1938, Battle of Wuhan. Chinese soldiers fight the Japanese in the street.

July 1938, the first People's Political Council in progress in Wuhan.

The Wuxi Youth Resistance Team from the China Youth Association for Resistance brings to life a news story on the resistance in a street play.

Women in a resistance base make shoes for soldiers.

During the War of Resistance, people in Xinjiang eagerly donated funds for purchasing fighter aircraft to support fighting on the frontlines. The photograph shows the scene at the naming ceremony fo...

August 1937, New York City, overseas Chinese hold a demonstration against Japanese aggression in China to support China's resistance efforts.

1940, Tan Kah Kee(front row, fourth from the right), a leading figure amongst Southeast Asian overseas Chinese, leads a team of resistance activists to China to show solidarity with the soldiers fig...

The Soviet Volunteer Group from the Soviet Air Force joins the Chinese in their resistance efforts. The photograph shows Chinese and Soviet pilots at Hankou Airport, 1938.

A Chinese soldier stands guard by planes, painted to resemble sharks, from the American Volunteer Group(the "Flying Tigers").

1938, Dr. Norman Bethune operates on an injured Eighth Route Army soldier at a clinic in Songyankou Village, Wutai County, Shanxi Province.

1940, during the Hundred-Regiment Campaign, Eighth Route Army soldiers at a beacon tower of the Great Wall in Laiyuan County cheer in celebration following their occupation of a Japanese stronghold ...

1940, Nie Rongzhen (on the right) looks after Mihoko, a Japanese girl rescued from a battle during the Hundred-Regiment Campaign.

1980, Mihoko bows in thanks to Nie Rongzhen during a return visit to China.

January 1939, New Fourth Army soldiers after a successful long-range raid on a Japanese stronghold in Guandoumen on the outer rim of Wuhu Airport.

Troops from the Southern China People's Counter-Japanese Guerrilla Forces on the march.

1939, Chinese soldiers charging into battle during the Kunlunguan Campaign.

A democratic election in progress in a resistance base behind Japanese lines.

Mines were widely employed in the guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. The photograph shows militiamen in Binhai, Shandong Province, planting mines on a strategic route used by Japanese forces in t...

Tunnel warfare was a major form of guerrilla warfare against the Japanese. Pictured is a militiaman in central Hebei Province moving locations in a tunnel.

Chinese soldiers and civilians in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region participate in a production campaign in response to the CPC Central Committee's call for them to draw on their own labor to ...

1942, after a long journey, the Chinese Expeditionary Force arrives on the frontlines in northern Burma ready to offer reinforcement to the British Burma Army. The photograph shows Chinese soldiers ...

December 1937, the invading Japanese Army engineers the Nanjing Massacre.Pictured here, Japanese troops stab Chinese people to death during the massacre(photograph from the US Library of Congress).

The bodies of Chinese soldiers and civilians slaughtered by the Japanese Army line the banks of the Yangtze River in Nanjing.

A Japanese soldier holding the head of a decapitated Chinese soldier. This photograph was seized from the Japanese Army.

December 1937, a report on the “killing contest” held in Nanjing by two Japanese soldiers, published in the Tokyo Daily News.

January 1941, scorched houses and bodies of villagers following the aftermath of the Panjiayu Massacre in Fengrun, eastern Hebei Province.

Japanese troops killing a Chinese captive. The photograph was taken by a Japanese soldier. It has been stamped by a Japanese military censorship department (in the top right-hand corner)with the wor...

June 5, 1941, bodies of Chinese civilians killed in the Chongqing Tunnel Tragedy. The tragedy occurred due to the continuous Japanese air bombardment.

Pingfang District, Harbin, the skeleton of Unit 731's germ warfare factory, left standing after the Japanese Army blew the factory up before its surrender in order to destroy any traces of its crime...

A Japanese military surgeon carries out vivisections and experiments on live human subjects in the germ warfare factory.

A mass grave of Chinese laborers.

Hanaoka, Japan. Chinese laborers were abducted and taken to Japan, where\they met with enslavement and persecution. Chinese people were abducted in large numbers as forced labor during the war.

Rules of a “comfort station” established by the Japanese Army to force Chinese women to serve as sex slaves for its troops.

A “comfort station”-a house of sex slaves -set up by the Japanese Army in China.

1943, Egypt, Chinese, American, and British heads of state and military generals attending the Cairo Conference.

Full Chinese version of the Cairo Declaration published on December 3, 1943, in the Guilin edition of Ta Kung Pao.

September 2, 1945, the ceremony for Japan's surrender to the Allies held aboard the USS Missouri.

September 9, 1945, Nanjing, the signing ceremony for the Japanese Army's surrender in the China Theater.

October 25, 1945, during the surrender acceptance ceremony in Taipei, people gather outside the conference hall and cheer for the recovery of Taiwan.

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