NE China Commemorates Victory in Anti-Japanese War, XINHUA From: Xinhua (China) | Date: August 15, 2001 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Xinhua (China)
08-15-2001
SHENYANG, August 15 (Xinhua) -- Scholars from northeast China's Liaoning
Province gathered at the September 18 Museum here Wednesday to commemorate
the victory over the Japanese aggressors 56 years ago.
Professor Zhang Deliang, also head of the Northeast Army History Study
Society, said at the meeting that the triumph over Japan was China's first
complete triumph against foreign invaders since the Opium War of 1840.
"It successfully enhanced the confidence and dignity of the Chinese people,"
he said.
Chu Xinggui, the curator of the museum, emphasized that though half a
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