A Bit of Summer Reading – KMT Veterans in the PRC, WW1 & the Sino-Jap War

A couple of summer reads I thought regular China Rhyming viewers might find interesting….

Karolin Kan in That’s Shanghai on the (mis) fortunes of KMT Army vets from WW2 who live in the PRC, a land that can’t quite deal with who actually fought the Japanese….Soldiers of Misfortune…..;

The WSJ’s China Real Time blog has a Q&A with CASS Japan Specialist Ma Yong on the First Sino-Japanese War…Still Testy After 120 Years;

And, the Los Angeles Review of Books China blog has a review of the first four books published in the Penguin China World War One series….China’s Forgotten World War One

The dedication of the WWI memorial on the Shanghai Bund, in 1924