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The presence of the Chinese defenders was made known in the October 28, 1937 issue of The North-China Herald reporting on the Japanese capture of Zhabei that occurred the day prior. While it was reported most of the Chinese forces had abandoned the city, a Chinese unit was observed in a warehouse near North Tibet Road along the Suzhou Creek.
800 Heroes (Chinese: 八百壯士) is a 1938 Chinese historical war drama film directed by Ying Yunwei and written by Yang Hansheng. The film stars Yuan Muzhi, Chen Bo'er, Hong Hong, and Zhang Shufan. [1] The film is about the Defense of Sihang Warehouse in 1937 Shanghai. [2] The film was released on April 2, 1938, in China.
The Eight Hundred is the first Chinese film or commercial Asian film shot entirely on IMAX cameras. [8] [9] The production team had built a real set of 68 buildings with an area of 133,333 square metres (1,435,180 square feet) in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu province. [10] The investment amount of the film is as high as CN¥ 550,000,000 (US ...
Don't Cry, Nanking, also known as Nanjing 1937 (Chinese: 南京1937; pinyin: Nánjīng yī jiǔ sān qī), is a 1995 Chinese film about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the former capital city Nanjing, China.
In 1937, Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army overruns China's capital city, Nanjing, in December and carries out the Nanjing massacre. As the Japanese overrun the Chinese army, desperate schoolgirls flee to the sanctuary of their convent at a Western-run Roman Catholic church.
The Eighth Route Army was created from the Chinese Red Army on September 22, 1937, when the Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists formed the Second United Front against Japan at the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, as the Chinese theater was known in World War II.
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The last stage, ranging from October 27 to the end of November 1937, involved the retreat of the Chinese army in the face of Japanese flanking maneuvers, and the ensuing combat on the road to China's capital at the time, Nanjing. In addition to the urban combat, trench warfare was also fought in the outskirts of the city. [30] [17]