BEIJING TODAY
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History’s forgotten sacrifice Yang Yuxing was one of many soldiers sent with the Chinese expeditionary force to guard the southwest and help the British repel the Japanese army in Burma during World War II. Within three years, half of the force’s 400,000 soldiers were killed in action. Their fierce battles had lapsed from memory when Wang Huasha, a photographer from Yunnan Province, started to photograph the surviving veterans in 2007. With the battered cities rebuilt, only the veterans’ faces, furrowed and etched by war and age, remain as evidence of the past. Zhou Chaoxian, 85 (featured right), was pressed into joining the expeditionay force while planting rice in his field. See the story behind the faces on
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY June 26, 2009 – July 2, 2009 NO. 421 CN11-0120 HTTP://WWW.BEIJINGTODAY.COM.CN CHIEF EDITOR: JIAN RONG NEWS EDITOR: YU SHANSHAN DESIGNER: ZHAO YAN
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