In 1937 a young girl from a wealthy Chinese family witnessed an invasion that would upend her life — and help determine the politics of China today.
Japanese occupation of Peiping (Beijing), China, August 13, 1937. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
“With my own eyes I saw the army piling up sandbags to prepare for street fighting,” she wrote. “When Peiping [Beijing] fell, I stood at my aunt’s door and watched the mechanized units of the Japanese devils roll past. The artillery, the tanks
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