Tag: Sino-Japanese War

War Without End

Post author By Karen Kao
Post date 2017-02-08

War in China. These soldiers are headed for the Japanese front. It’s 1944 in Luzhou, a river port in Sichuan province. In the back row from right to left are my father, my Uncle Charles and my Aunt Viola’s youngest brother. My father waited to enlist until he had graduated from university. By then, the war was […]

Tags Nagasaki, Nanjing, Sino-Japanese War, The Dancing Girl and the Turtle, Tokyo

Family ghosts Shanghai War

The House on Avenue Haig

Post author By Karen Kao
Post date 2016-11-16

My father was born in 1923. His parents named him Shen Bo (申伯) which, in the local dialect means first son in Shanghai. He grew up in a house on Avenue Haig (now called Huashan Lu). This was the westernmost edge of the French Concession. foreign shanghai This is a map of Shanghai in 1929, […]

Tags Avenue Haig, Battle of Shanghai, French Concession, Sincere Department Store, Sino-Japanese War

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