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Last Battle on the Great Wall

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A Chinese-language propaganda poster, rendered in the wake of Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria, extols the benefits of Japanese “protection.” Within a few years Japan sought to extend its mainland Asian empire beyond the Great Wall into central China.In 1933, in a surreal clash of ancient and modern weaponry, Chinese troops sought to defend the Great Wall from the combined forces of the Imperial Japanese Army

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