Rabu, 05 April 2017

Controlling Changsha, Controlling China

Now all but forgotten, Changsha was one of the most bitterly contested cities of the Pacific War. The city of Changsha is today, as it was in the 1930s, a bustling urban space amid the bountiful rice fields of China’s Hunan Province. Its name has all but disappeared from the published histories of the Second …

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