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Chinese Periodicals Related to the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) in the Asian Division, Library of Congress

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Yuwu Song, Chinese Reference Specialist, Asian Division.) The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 started with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937, when a dispute over a missing Japanese soldier escalated into a battle. All-out war broke out shortly afterwards, and ended with the unconditional surrender of Japan …

Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia, World War II

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In Commemoration of D-Day: Treasures from the Hebraic Section

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Ann Brener, Hebraic Area Specialist in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division.) They probably didn’t seem like treasures at the time. They were for the most part in fact rather ordinary: books for study, or for reading to children; posters about upcoming protests, hastily printed; newspaper articles and …

Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section, World War II