Enduring legacy of Doolittle Raid: Restoring history in Jiangshan

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Shared Sino-US history can help shape future

After Japan launched the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 during World War II, the United States retaliated with a massive air raid, known as the "Doolittle Raid", on Japan in April 1942. The daring operation ended with several dozen crew members from 16 US bombers parachuting into Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui and Fujian provinces in China, where they …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Keeping the past in sight for the future

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Restoration funds give new lease of life to historical structures, Zheng Caixiong reports in Guangzhou. With no small amount of pride and with obvious delight, the staff member of the Nanlang subdistrict cultural service center in Zhongshan city, Guangdong province, these days happily introduces the historical arch to visitors. Due to the erosion of time, the green brick wall surface …

Maintenance Guangdong Arch

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Keeping the past in sight for the future

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Restoration funds give new lease of life to historical structures, Zheng Caixiong reports in Guangzhou. With no small amount of pride and with obvious delight, the staff member of the Nanlang subdistrict cultural service center in Zhongshan city, Guangdong province, these days happily introduces the historical arch to visitors. Due to the erosion of time, the green brick wall surface …

Maintenance Guangdong Arch

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Keeping the past in sight for the future

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Restoration funds give new lease of life to historical structures, Zheng Caixiong reports in Guangzhou. With no small amount of pride and with obvious delight, the staff member of the Nanlang subdistrict cultural service center in Zhongshan city, Guangdong province, these days happily introduces the historical arch to visitors. Due to the erosion of time, the green brick wall surface …

Maintenance Guangdong Arch

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Keeping the past in sight for the future

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Restoration funds give new lease of life to historical structures, Zheng Caixiong reports in Guangzhou. With no small amount of pride and with obvious delight, the staff member of the Nanlang subdistrict cultural service center in Zhongshan city, Guangdong province, these days happily introduces the historical arch to visitors. Due to the erosion of time, the green brick wall surface …

Maintenance Guangdong Arch

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Keepers of the century past

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LIU CHEN/CHINA DAILY Admirers of qilou buildings determined to prevent memories of old city's cosmopolitan architectural traditions from fading, Fang Aiqing reports in Shantou, Guangdong. In this installment, we walk through the Small Park historical area of Shantou, Guangdong province, to see how rows of qilou overlay an exotic charm on traditional architectural roots. A century ago in the city …

Guangdong Shantou Small Park

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Keepers of the century past

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LIU CHEN/CHINA DAILY Admirers of qilou buildings determined to prevent memories of old city's cosmopolitan architectural traditions from fading, Fang Aiqing reports in Shantou, Guangdong. In this installment, we walk through the Small Park historical area of Shantou, Guangdong province, to see how rows of qilou overlay an exotic charm on traditional architectural roots. A century ago in the city …

Guangdong Shantou Small Park

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Keepers of the century past

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LIU CHEN/CHINA DAILY Admirers of qilou buildings determined to prevent memories of old city's cosmopolitan architectural traditions from fading, Fang Aiqing reports in Shantou, Guangdong. In this installment, we walk through the Small Park historical area of Shantou, Guangdong province, to see how rows of qilou overlay an exotic charm on traditional architectural roots. A century ago in the city …

Guangdong Shantou Small Park

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Keepers of the century past

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LIU CHEN/CHINA DAILY Admirers of qilou buildings determined to prevent memories of old city's cosmopolitan architectural traditions from fading, Fang Aiqing reports in Shantou, Guangdong. In this installment, we walk through the Small Park historical area of Shantou, Guangdong province, to see how rows of qilou overlay an exotic charm on traditional architectural roots. A century ago in the city …

Guangdong Shantou Small Park

6 months, 1 week ago

US youth visit Doolittle Raid Memorial Hall

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-06-17 A group of young people from the United States visited the Doolittle Raid Memorial Hall in Quzhou, Zhejiang province on June 15. It commemorates the Doolittle Raid, a daring assault on Japan that took place on April 18, 1942, involving 16 B-25 bombers. "After returning to the US, I will definitely revisit everything I saw and learned …

China Memorial Raid Quzhou Doolittle

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US youth visit Doolittle Raid Memorial Hall

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-06-17 A group of young people from the United States visited the Doolittle Raid Memorial Hall in Quzhou, Zhejiang province on June 15. It commemorates the Doolittle Raid, a daring assault on Japan that took place on April 18, 1942, involving 16 B-25 bombers. "After returning to the US, I will definitely revisit everything I saw and learned …

Memorial Raid Quzhou Doolittle Hall China

7 months ago

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves

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Artist Chang Shana's works on display at a touring exhibition, Everlasting Beauty of Dunhuang, in Beijing, including Deity and Incense Burner. The journey began when Chang Shuhong decided to leave behind a Parisian life with good prospects to head toward a dream and mission — and, of course, uncertainties — back in his home country. He would have pursued his …

Paris Dunhuang

8 months ago

Exhibition on Doolittle Raid underway in Quzhou

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-19 B-25 bomber fuselage fragments and wreckage of a forward cockpit machine gun turret are on display at the Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid in Quzhou. An exhibition showcasing invaluable historical materials and cultural relics related to the Doolittle Raid is now underway at the Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid in Quzhou, Zhejiang province. The exhibition …

Quzhou Tracy Doolittle Raiders

8 months ago

Descendant of Doolittle Raiders returns to Quzhou

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-18 Susan Ozark, the daughter of a Doolittle Raid pilot, is welcomed back to where her father was rescued. In the serene Longtoudian village of Jiangshan, Quzhou, a deeply moving reunion unfolded on April 17, as Susan Ozark, a visitor from the United States, was warmly embraced by 89-year-old Liao Mingfa. In a poignant moment, Liao presented Susan …

Liao Father My Father Her Father Susan Doolittle Raid

8 months, 1 week ago

Unveiling of marker commemorating Doolittle Raid Landing Site

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-17 The Site marker is unveiled to commemorate the Doolittle Raid Wilder Landing. The unveiling of the marker for the Doolittle Raid's Wilder Landing Site took place in Fangyuan village, Jiangshan, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province on April 16. During the unveiling ceremony, Lieutenant Rodney R. Wilder's two grandsons, William Ross Comptonberg and George Duncan Comptonberg, along with Mao Honggen, …

Marker Wilder Landing

8 months, 1 week ago

Why Doolittle Raid a testimony of enduring friendship between Chinese and American people?

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Global Times| Updated :2024-04-12 Five Doolittle raiders pose for a photo after they were rescued by Chinese people in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province. In September 2015, Jeff Thatcher, the son of David J. Thatcher, another participant in the Doolittle Raid who was rescued by Chinese people, was invited to China on behalf of his father to attend the commemoration of the …

Friendship China Japan Japanese Chinese Liao Raiders

8 months, 1 week ago

Air-raid shelter in Wangcun village: A temporary home for Doolittle Raid pilots

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-11 An air-raid shelter in Wangcun village, Quzhou, where Doolittle Raid pilots gathered and sought refuge in 1942. The bomb shelter, affectionately referred to as the "Stone Restaurant" in the diaries and memoirs of nearly all Doolittle Raid members, is located in Wangcun village, Quzhou, and provided the first safe haven for the pilots after days of fear, …

Doolittle Raid Village Quzhou Wangcun Village Raid Pilots

8 months, 1 week ago

Capturing history: Cultural relics commemorating Doolittle Raid Rescue in Quzhou

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-11 On January 10, 2020, a significant contribution was made to the Quzhou Museum by a benevolent Chinese-American couple, as Chen Canpei and his wife generously donated 116 pieces of cultural relics and historical materials related to the Doolittle Raid event. Among the donated treasures are flight gear used by pilots, B-25 bomber parts identical to those utilized …

Raid Cultural Relics Doolittle Doolittle Raid

8 months, 1 week ago

Capturing history: Cultural relics commemorating Doolittle Raid Rescue in Quzhou

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-11 On January 10, 2020, a significant contribution was made to the Quzhou Museum by a benevolent Chinese-American couple, as Chen Canpei and his wife generously donated 116 pieces of cultural relics and historical materials related to the Doolittle Raid event. Among the donated treasures are flight gear used by pilots, B-25 bomber parts identical to those utilized …

Raid Cultural Relics Doolittle Doolittle Raid

8 months, 1 week ago

Air-raid shelter in Wangcun village: A temporary home for Doolittle Raid pilots

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-11 An air-raid shelter in Wangcun village, Quzhou, where Doolittle Raid pilots gathered and sought refuge in 1942. The bomb shelter, affectionately referred to as the "Stone Restaurant" in the diaries and memoirs of nearly all Doolittle Raid members, is located in Wangcun village, Quzhou, and provided the first safe haven for the pilots after days of fear, …

Raid Quzhou Doolittle Raid Wangcun Village

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Doolittle Raid Rescue in Quzhou witnesses friendship forged in blood and fire

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-08 Rescued crew members pose in front of the air raid shelter at the 13th Air Station in Wangcun village, Quzhou. During World War II, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 16 American B-25 bombers, led by Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle, conducted a raid on Japan in 1942. The stormy night of April 18, 1942, saw co-pilot Robert …

China Raid Robert Doolittle Doolittle Raid Village Quzhou

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Doolittle Raid Rescue in Quzhou witnesses friendship forged in blood and fire

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-08 Rescued crew members pose in front of the air raid shelter at the 13th Air Station in Wangcun village, Quzhou. During World War II, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 16 American B-25 bombers, led by Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle, conducted a raid on Japan in 1942. The stormy night of April 18, 1942, saw co-pilot Robert …

China Raid Robert Quzhou Doolittle Doolittle Raid

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid exemplar of Sino-American people-to-people friendship

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-07 The exterior of the Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid in Quzhou, Zhejiang province. The Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, which opened to the public in 2018, serves as a powerful reminder of the spontaneous rescue of American pilots by Chinese people 81 years ago. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor …

Chinese Memorial Hall Doolittle Raiders

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid exemplar of Sino-American people-to-people friendship

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chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-04-07 The exterior of the Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid in Quzhou, Zhejiang province. The Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, which opened to the public in 2018, serves as a powerful reminder of the spontaneous rescue of American pilots by Chinese people 81 years ago. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor …

Chinese Raid Memorial Hall Doolittle Doolittle Raid

9 months, 1 week ago

Women make their mark in archaeological field

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China Daily | Updated: 2024-03-16 10:05 Members of the archaeological team. Hunching over with shovel in hand, 30-year-old Zhu Yingpei is at work in a newly excavated tomb in Xianyang in Northwest China's Shaanxi province. Pointing to bones and relics in a coffin, Zhu says the tomb belonged to an ordinary person during the Western Han Dynasty. Digging in soil, …

Zhu

1 year, 3 months ago

Archaeologists find ancient tombs, house foundations in Northeast China

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This photo taken in July 2023 shows part of the Quying cemetery in Yingkou city, Northeast China's Liaoning province. SHENYANG -- Archaeologists have unearthed 10 tombs and the foundations of eight houses dating back to a period spanning from the Wei Kingdom to the Jin Dynasty in Northeast China's Liaoning province. Notably, the artifacts, including pottery fragments adorned with grid-like …

Liaoning Northeast China Cultural Relics Quying

1 year, 4 months ago

Reviving the glory of millennia-old posthouse ruins in Dunhuang

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A view of the Site of Xuanquanzhi in Dunhuang city, Northwest China’s Gansu province, on July 30, 2023 On an overcast, windy morning in late July, standing in the arid Gobi Desert of Dunhuang city, Northwest China’s Gansu province, was a test in its own right; the air was dry and hot. “The cost and details of this reception were …

China Cultural Han Site Unearthed Relics Dunhuang

1 year, 4 months ago

Reviving the glory of millennia-old posthouse ruins in Dunhuang

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A view of the Site of Xuanquanzhi in Dunhuang city, Northwest China’s Gansu province, on July 30, 2023 On an overcast, windy morning in late July, standing in the arid Gobi Desert of Dunhuang city, Northwest China’s Gansu province, was a test in its own right; the air was dry and hot. “The cost and details of this reception were …

China Han Site Relics Dunhuang Rong Gansu Province

1 year, 4 months ago

Reviving the glory of millennia-old posthouse ruins in Dunhuang

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A view of the Site of Xuanquanzhi in Dunhuang city, Northwest China’s Gansu province, on July 30, 2023 On an overcast, windy morning in late July, standing in the arid Gobi Desert of Dunhuang city, Northwest China’s Gansu province, was a test in its own right; the air was dry and hot. “The cost and details of this reception were …

China Han Site Unearthed Relics Dunhuang Rong

1 year, 4 months ago

Reviving the glory of millennia-old posthouse ruins in Dunhuang

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A view of the Site of Xuanquanzhi in Dunhuang city, Northwest China’s Gansu province, on July 30, 2023 On an overcast, windy morning in late July, standing in the arid Gobi Desert of Dunhuang city, Northwest China’s Gansu province, was a test in its own right; the air was dry and hot. “The cost and details of this reception were …

China Cultural Han Site Unearthed Relics Dunhuang

1 year, 11 months ago

Saving the best for last

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A bronze ornament featuring the face of an animal, excavated from the Jiuwutou site in Yuncheng, Shanxi province. How a foiled robbery attempt led to the unexpected discovery of a tomb full of relics that shed light on a key part of Shang history, report Yang Feiyue and Sun Ruisheng in Taiyuan. The relics were displayed by the Archaeology Institute …

Shang Shanxi Province Yuncheng Shanxi Jiuwutou

1 year, 11 months ago

Saving the best for last

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A bronze ornament featuring the face of an animal, excavated from the Jiuwutou site in Yuncheng, Shanxi province. How a foiled robbery attempt led to the unexpected discovery of a tomb full of relics that shed light on a key part of Shang history, report Yang Feiyue and Sun Ruisheng in Taiyuan. The relics were displayed by the Archaeology Institute …

Shanxi Shang Shanxi Province Jiuwutou

2 years ago

Restoration offers gateway to the past

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Huang Min, 68, a former resident of Zhang Yuan, is invited to revisit the compound before its reopening. "From the bricks to the tiles to the doors to even the mottled traces on the walls of the buildings, the renovation team tried their best to preserve or restore as much as possible," Shi says. "This is why we hope to …

Compound Zhang Yuan Huang Min

2 years, 8 months ago

Celebrities' former residences enrich Shinan's cultural ambience

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The former residence of renowned Chinese geological expert Li Siguang in Shinan district, Qingdao. Shinan district is the cultural heart of Qingdao, one of China's most known historical and cultural cities, and is home to the majority of the city's remarkable historical buildings as well as former celebrity mansions in modern times. Shinan district features 58 of the 60 former …

Qingdao District Shinan District Shinan Cultural Celebrity

2 years, 8 months ago

Celebrities' former residences enrich Shinan's cultural ambience

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The former residence of renowned Chinese geological expert Li Siguang in Shinan district, Qingdao. Shinan district is the cultural heart of Qingdao, one of China's most known historical and cultural cities, and is home to the majority of the city's remarkable historical buildings as well as former celebrity mansions in modern times. Shinan district features 58 of the 60 former …

Cultural Qingdao District Shinan District Shinan

3 years, 6 months ago

Bohai Zhongjing National Archaeological Site Park

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Bohai Zhongjing National Archaeological Site Park 渤海中京考古遗址公园 Address: Gucheng village, Xicheng town, Helong city, Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture, Jilin province View of the site of Zhongjing city of the Bohai Kingdom Located in today’s Helong city of Northeast China’s Jilin province, Zhongjing city of the Bohai Kingdom was completed around the year 742. Historical relics of the Bohai Kingdom are …

China City Bohai Zhongjing Site Zhongjing City

3 years, 11 months ago

Relics resurrected from palace's ruins

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'Minimum intervention' Wang, former director of the cultural relic conservation department at Nanjing Museum, has about half a century of experience in repairing ceramics and glazed glass. Wang said traditional craftsmen should be able to produce new components to replace some missing parts to maintain the look of the relics. In May 2019, a program called Restoring 1860 began in …

Wang Piece Yuanmingyuan

3 years, 11 months ago

Relics resurrected from palace's ruins

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'Minimum intervention' Wang, former director of the cultural relic conservation department at Nanjing Museum, has about half a century of experience in repairing ceramics and glazed glass. Wang said traditional craftsmen should be able to produce new components to replace some missing parts to maintain the look of the relics. In May 2019, a program called Restoring 1860 began in …

Wang Piece Yuanmingyuan

Enduring legacy of Doolittle Raid: Restoring history in Jiangshan

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