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Tongji University, Shanghai, 1949

Posted: June 9th, 2026 | No Comments »

A picture of Shanghai right before the communists arrived in 1949. Chinese students and professors at Tongji  University sell their personal effects to buy rice for  students whose homes were either destroyed or occupied by communist forces in the Chinese Civil War. January 1949, photograph by Warren Lee.



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