Who were the people in wartime China?
Just for fun, here is a table I found of those who jumped from the parachute tower in Chongqing between April of 1942 and April 1943. I suppose I should open wi...
Category: Aviation
Aviation and Asian Modernity 1900–1950
Hey look! Up in the sky! It’s …scholarship! Well, my bibliography on Asian aviation anyway. More importantly, it looks like the whole Oxford Bibliog...
Where’s my Flying Imperialism?
While googling around looking for advertising posters for Asian airlines of the 20’s and 30’s I found this. It is from a series of prints showing the Japanese e...
Multi-cultural Chiang Kai-shek
Here is a nice picture of Chiang Kai-shek and his government’s outreach to minority nationalities. It comes from 蒙藏月報1935,3(6) (Mongolia and Tibet Monthly...
Chinese government graphics
One thing that you notice when you look at Chinese government reports and such from the 20’s 30’s and 40’s is how amazing the graphics are. I ...
The Oriental and its readership
Here are two pictures The one on the right is a cigarette ad from the 1930s. The one on the left is the Chinese aviatrix Lee Ya-Ching, who I have mentioned befo...
Patriotic, airminded, Mahjong
Via Peter Harmsen’s WW2 In China blog I found a link to this post from Mahjong Treasures. The post describes a mysterious Mahjong set that left China in t...
Oriental Women
I have been reading about Lee Ya-Ching, who is billed (incorrectly) by Wikipedia as the “First Chinese civilian aviator.” In her various tours of No...