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Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students, faculty, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China's western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the student refugees who are at risk: Lian and her classmates...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
Spring, 1933. Peking's Forbidden City is tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircraft drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. How will the curators protect the vast imperial art collections in their charge? A million pieces...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.-- Provided by Publisher.
Publisher
Tai Seng Video Marketing
Publication Date
[2001], ©1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, Chen joins the legendary Ching Wu Martial Arts Academy to refine his skills and to assist in the academy's underground resistance against the enemy. But when Chen's master is poisoned by the Japanese, Chen vows revenge on the murderer and seeks justice for his master's death.
5) Air strike
Publisher
Lionsgate
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a U.S. Army colonel trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters, a hotheaded pilot begs to fly a powerful bomber that could stop the attacks. Meanwhile, a team of spies and refugees must carry a game-changing decoder device through the war-torn countryside.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
v, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's Flying Tigers tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled forces of Chiang Kai-Shek's China. These 300 individuals...