"in Longhua Park. Since its inception, the fair has been an annual event interrupted only by the Cultural Revolution and the SARS outbreak. The Longhua Temple is located on the Longhua area (formerly Longhua township) of Shanghai (named after the temple). Its street address is No. 2853 Longhua Road (Longhua Lu). It is open to the public for a fee (10 RMB) which includes incense. J.G. Ballard in his World War II-era autobiographical novel ""Empire of the Sun"" describes the Japanese military use of the Longhua pagoda as a flak cannon tower. In Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the book,"
"Miracles of Life Miracles of Life is an autobiography written by British writer J. G. Ballard and published in 2008. The book describes Ballard's childhood and early teenage years in Shanghai in the 1930s and the early 1940s, when the city is ravaged by the Second Sino-Japanese War in the Battle of Shanghai and World War II. After the happy years spent with his well-to-do family in the Shanghai International Settlement, Ballard experiences the horrors of war and then the deprivations of an internment camp, Lunghua, where he is imprisoned with his parents, his sister, and hundreds of other British,"
"and the one he gets back to in his 1991 visit, is envisioned as a prototype of our late-modern or postmodern world. Miracles of Life Miracles of Life is an autobiography written by British writer J. G. Ballard and published in 2008. The book describes Ballard's childhood and early teenage years in Shanghai in the 1930s and the early 1940s, when the city is ravaged by the Second Sino-Japanese War in the Battle of Shanghai and World War II. After the happy years spent with his well-to-do family in the Shanghai International Settlement, Ballard experiences the horrors of war and"
"same name in his autobiography ""Miracles of Life"". The novel recounts the story of a young British boy, Jamie Graham (named after Ballard's two first names, ""James Graham""), who lives with his parents in Shanghai. After the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan occupies the Shanghai International Settlement, and in the following chaos Jim becomes separated from his parents. He spends some time in abandoned mansions, living on remnants of packaged food. Having exhausted the food supplies, he decides to try to surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army. After many attempts, he finally succeeds and is interned in the Lunghua Civilian Assembly"
"Chinese and Japanese forces. After the Japanese attack on Hong Kong, the Japanese occupied the International Settlement in Shanghai. In early 1943, they began to intern Allied civilians, and Ballard was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center with his parents and younger sister. He spent over two years, the remainder of World War II, in the internment camp. His family lived in a small area in G block, a two-story residence for 40 families. He attended school in the camp, the teachers being camp inmates from a number of professions. These experiences formed the basis of ""Empire of the"
"a Manchester-based textile firm, the Calico Printers' Association, and became chairman and managing director of its subsidiary in Shanghai, the China Printing and Finishing Company. His mother was Edna, Johnstone. Ballard was born and raised in the Shanghai International Settlement, an area under foreign control where people ""lived an American style of life"". He was sent to the Cathedral School, the Anglican Holy Trinity Church near the Bund, Shanghai. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ballard's family were forced to evacuate their suburban home temporarily and rent a house in central Shanghai to avoid the shells fired by"
"had been edited out from these earlier works. With regard to ""Empire"", Ballard explains: In my novel the most important break with real events is the absence from Lunghua of my parents... I felt it was closer to the psychological and emotional truth of events to make 'Jim' effectively a war orphan. Much of the added value of the book is to be found in Ballard's witty and insightful remarks that comment on his experiences, but also tie the facts of his childhood and teenage years to the realities of today's globalised world. Shanghai, the city he was born in"
"novels and short stories), many readers were interested in the opportunity to read Ballard's own possibly ultimate version. The book actually offers important biographical details about Ballard's crucial period in Shanghai, 1930–1946, but does not cover in detail other parts of his life (e.g. the 1970s and 1980s). However, many elements of ""Miracles"" show Ballard's intention to present it as a truthful narrative of his life, such as the pictures of his parents, his wife, his children, and his then current partner. A remarkable difference of this narrative from both ""Empire"" and ""Kindness"" is the presence of Ballard's parents, who"
"the Sun"" by British author J.G. Ballard, based on his experiences as a boy during the Japanese invasion and occupation. The book was made into a film by Steven Spielberg. The opening pages of the novel ""Cryptonomicon"" by Neal Stephenson are set on the Bund in November 1941, as civil order collapses under the threat of Japanese invasion. The Bund is a setting (and namesake) of the Hong Kong television series ""The Bund"" (1980) and film ""Shanghai Grand"" (1996). The story of both involve pre-World War II era gangsters competing for control of the Bund. ""The Bund"" is a song"
"parents. He was in the third generation of a British family who first went to China as missionaries. His father was headmaster of the International/British School in Tianjin. When the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and the French Concession portions of Shanghai and the concessions in Tianjin after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, he and his parents were interned in a prisoner of war camp similar to that portrayed in the novel ""Empire of the Sun,"" by J. G. Ballard, and film of the same name. He became interested in insects while wandering in weedy ground"
"the Chinese military. After China's War with Japan (1937–45) erupted in 1937, Li resigned from his post in the central government and took the advice from his friend Jiang Baili (蒋百里) to move his family from Nanjing to Shanghai to help him finish his military works. In the Isolated Island period in Shanghai during World War II, Li's family lived on Ximo Road in the Shanghai International Settlement, an area which was not occupied by Japanese invaders, but in control of the British and American forces. As a prestigious figure in China's cultural and diplomatic circles, Li was engaged as"
"Lunghua Civilian Assembly Centre Lunghua Civil Assembly Centre was one of the internment camps eventually established by the Empire of Japan in Shanghai for European and American citizens, who had been resident under Japanese occupation since December 1941. Many had formerly lived in Shanghai within the Shanghai International Settlement before its occupation by the Japanese army. J. G. Ballard was interned in the camp as an adolescent. His experiences there inspired the book (and subsequent movie) ""Empire of the Sun"". Lunghua Civil Assembly Centre was originally the Jiangsu Shanghai High School. It was located on Minghong Road about three miles"
"new life after their hometown is destroyed by a group of bandits. Upon his arrival, he notices that Shanghai is divided into an international settlement under the control of various foreign powers such as Britain and Japan. He also observes that the martial artists' community in Shanghai is marred with disunity and the various schools are pursuing their individual goals. The fractured status of the martial arts community reflects the state of China: the Chinese are individualistic and are often engaging in internal conflict instead of uniting to drive out their common enemies (the overbearing foreigners) and regain sovereignty of"
"Empire of the Sun Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story ""The Dead Time"" (published in the anthology ""Myths of the Near Future""), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. The name of the novel is derived from the etymology of the name for Japan. Ballard later wrote of his experiences in China as a boy and the making of the film of the"
"so much so that the author had to put the manuscript away many times as she wrote it because the memories were so troubling. Life and Death in Shanghai Life and Death in Shanghai is an autobiography published in November 1987 by Nien Cheng. Written in exile in the United States, it tells the story of Cheng's arrest during the first days of the Cultural Revolution, her more than six years' confinement, release, persecution, efforts to leave China, and early life in exile. Cheng was arrested in late 1966 after the Red Guards looted her home. During her confinement, she"
"Life and Death in Shanghai Life and Death in Shanghai is an autobiography published in November 1987 by Nien Cheng. Written in exile in the United States, it tells the story of Cheng's arrest during the first days of the Cultural Revolution, her more than six years' confinement, release, persecution, efforts to leave China, and early life in exile. Cheng was arrested in late 1966 after the Red Guards looted her home. During her confinement, she was pressured to make a false confession that she was a spy for ""the imperialists"" because for many years after the death of her"
"forms of entertainment included Lianhuanhua comic books. The architectural style at the time was modeled after British and American design. Many of the grandest-scale buildings on The Bundsuch as Shanghai Club, the Asia Building and the HSBC buildingwere constructed or renovated at this time. The city created a distinct image that separated it from all other Chinese cities that had come before it. ""Bizarre advertising displays were an everyday reality ... though I sometimes wonder if everyday reality was the one element missing from the city,"" British novelist J.G. Ballard, who was born and raised in Shanghai during this era,"
"China in this period, from the marriage of her grandmother to a warlord, to her mother's experience of Japanese-occupied Jinzhou during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and her own experience of the effects of Mao's policies of the 1950s and 1960s. ""Wild Swans"" was translated into 38 languages and sold 20 million copies, receiving praise from authors such as J. G. Ballard. It is banned in mainland China, though many pirated versions circulated, as are translations in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Chang's 2005 work, a biography of Mao, was co-authored with her husband Jon Halliday and portrays Mao in an extremely"
"Belgian, Dutch and American nationals. After being liberated by the Americans in 1945, James ""returns"" to England with his mother and sister, but the return to a country which he has never known, being born in Shanghai, is made difficult by the dismal atmosphere of post-war Britain and the difficulty of integrating into British society. After beginning medical studies at a prestigious Cambridge college, Ballard suddenly quits the university and enlists in the R.A.F. The stint with the air force in a Canadian air base will prove to be a wrong move, and Ballard then quits the R.A.F. and returns"
"The Concentration City ""The Concentration City"" is a dystopian short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first published, under the title ""Build-Up"", in ""New Worlds"" volume 19 number 55 in January 1957. It was reprinted in the collections ""Billennium"" and ""Chronopolis"" and later, under its revised title, in ""The Disaster Area"" and """". ""The Concentration City"" is set in a ""city"" encompassing everything in known existence to its inhabitants. The districts comprise endless streets and buildings and seemingly infinitely high and low levels, or floors, with few trees and little wildlife. Cubic space is in shortage and expensive. High"
"Millennium People Millennium People is a novel by British writer J. G. Ballard, published in 2003. The novel is the story of a rebellion in the middle classes in an enclave of Greater London. When a bomb explodes on a baggage carousel at Heathrow Airport, killing his ex-wife, psychologist David Markham tries to unravel the mystery surrounding her seemingly pointless death. But with unresolved questions about himself, his job, and his loving but adulterous wife, Sally, he soon finds himself immersed in the deeper waters of middle-class revolution originating from the gated community of Chelsea Marina, an upper middle-class enclave"
"internment camp for American and European citizens. James Graham Ballard was interned in the camp as an adolescent. His experiences there inspired the book (and subsequent film) ""Empire of the Sun"". The school was restored after the war, and it was renamed to Shanghai High School in 1950. On June 1, 1993, Shanghai High School approved the establishment of an International Division. On its Puxi and Pudong campuses, SHSID has more than 2,800 students from over 60 different nations and regions. Academics are separated into English and Chinese sections. The Chinese section is based on education in mainland China and"
"Battle of Shanghai The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) of the Empire of Japan at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the entire war, described as ""Stalingrad on the Yangtze"". Since the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 followed by the Japanese attack of Shanghai in 1932, there had been ongoing armed conflicts between China and Japan without an official declaration of war. These"
"their day-to-day lives.In post-independence Assam, Mei Lin, descended from the slave Ho Han, lives a life of satisfaction with her husband Pulok Barua. But in 1962, as war breaks out in the high Himalayas between India and China, a close family member conspires to have Mei Lin deported to Maoist China. She and thousands of other Chinese Indians will now have to fend for themselves in a land that, despite their origins, is strangely foreign.From the horror-ridden hardships of the slave pens of Assam to the Sino-Indian war, this searing novel tells the story of the Chinese Indians, a community"
"Moment in Peking Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang. The novel, Lin's first, covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the start of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. At the repeated invitation of Pearl S. Buck, who had sponsored the publication of Lin’s bestselling ""My Country and My People"" in 1935, Lin left China for New York in August, 1936 to write ""The Importance of Living"", which was published"
"a superb book about the vexed problem of collaboration"" and commends Brook for providing a most interesting perspective and for ""the clear and methodical way in which it proceeds through its historical investigation."" Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China is a history book which investigates collaboration between the Chinese elites and Japanese, following the attack on the Chinese city of Shanghai in August 1937, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, and during the subsequent military occupation of the Yangtze River Delta in China by Japan."
"the NRA attempted to eradicate Japanese troop presence in downtown Shanghai. The second stage lasted from August 23 to October 26, 1937, during which the Japanese launched amphibious landings on the Jiangsu coast and the two armies fought a Stalingrad-type house-to-house battle, with the Japanese attempting to gain control of the city and the surrounding regions. The last stage, ranging from October 27 to the end of November 1937, involved the retreat of the Chinese army in the face of Japanese flanking maneuvers, and the ensuing combat on the road to China's capital, Nanjing. On 9 August, Lieutenant of the"
"important places—the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Shanghai, internment at Angel Island, Los Angeles Chinatown, Hollywood, World War II, the Chinese Exclusion Act, McCarthyism, etc. Historically significant people appearing in the novel include Madame Chiang Kai-shek, actress Anna May Wong, film personality Tom Gubbins, and Christine Sterling, the ""Mother of Olvera Street."" ""Snow Flower and the Secret Fan"" explores the complex relationship between two intimate friends. In ""Shanghai Girls"" See treats the loving yet conflicted relationship between two best friends who also happen to be sisters, especially in the context of their relationship to Pearl's daughter Joy. In speaking"
"Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China is a history book which investigates collaboration between the Chinese elites and Japanese, following the attack on the Chinese city of Shanghai in August 1937, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, and during the subsequent military occupation of the Yangtze River Delta in China by Japan. The book is written by Timothy Brook, a distinguished Canadian historian who specializes in the study of China (Sinology). Following the attack on the Chinese city of Shanghai by the Japanese forces in"
"to Britain. The autobiography subsequently describes his happy marriage, the birth of his children (the ""miracles of life"" that the title hints at), his wife's sudden and unexpected death, and the ensuing difficulties, which Ballard faces by deciding to raise his children as a single parent. The book also describes the beginning of his literary career, his friendship with pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi, his experimentation culminating in his destructured novel ""The Atrocity Exhibition"", though less space is devoted to the Sixties and the Seventies than to the 15 years spent in Shanghai. The story of the success of ""Empire of"
"China). His memoir, ""The Man on Mao's Right"", was published in July, 2008, by Random House. The son of a wealthy landlord, lawyer, and provincial official in Shanxi Province, Ji and his family fled their home in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, in 1937, ahead of the advancing armies of Imperial Japan. Ji's eldest brother, Ji Chaoding, was a noted economist who earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University. He held a high position in the Nationalist (Kuomintang) government of Chiang Kai-shek, but was secretly supporting and spying for the rival Communist insurgency led by Zhou and Mao. At the urging of"
"his residence, witnessed by his brother. His family was asked for 5 million dollars cash. When he was released after 24 days, he lost twelve pounds and some of his hair. Wong wrote a book, ""The Black Hole of Shanghai"" about his kidnapping experience. He also wrote a semi-autographical fiction, ""The Mental Autobiography of Bill Lee"". He changed his life view after the imprisonment, and became more active in charity works. During the Japanese occupation, he was called or detained at the military police barrack for five times, two times at the Kinnear Road Barrack, two times at the Avenue"
"looks at the city where Girard was born, especially the waterfront and the other unglamorous parts of the port city, before making Asia his home for the next thirty years. ""City of Darkness Revisited"", released in 2014, revives an early collaboration with co-author Ian Lambot, and updates their original book ""City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City"" (1993). Based in Shanghai between 1998 and 2011, his photographic monograph ""Phantom Shanghai"" (2007), looks at the rapid and at times violent transition of Shanghai as the city raced to make itself ""modern again"" at the beginning of the 21st Century. Other"