History through personal stories

In 2006, Wang Jinchang, a collector of red (revolution-themed) relics, found two letters written in the early 1930s by Red Army soldiers in Jiangxi province, a base of the Communist Party of China, to their family members.

"I, your son, will definitely smash the enemy's fifth 'Encirclement and Suppression' with my fellow men," Liang Changshun wrote to his mother, while soldier Wang Jinzhu exhorted his older brother to also join the revolution.

Wang says he was moved by what he read and shocked to discover that both these brave men died in the battles associated with the Long March (1934-1936) of the Red Army.