US files mirror Chinese fighters in war

Editor's Note: From 1937 to 1945, China fought a war to resist Japanese aggression, led by the Communist Party of China mostly in the north and the then ruling Kuomintang party largely in the south. Professor Tonglin Lu talks with Ed Zhang of China Daily about the roles of the two forces as reflected in some previously little-known documents in the US wartime intelligence archives.

History doesn't necessarily reveal its lessons by itself. Sometimes it takes someone to discover them, as Professor Tonglin Lu at the University of Montreal, Canada, where she teaches comparative literature and films, has been doing recently.

Lu is also the coordinator of a project at the school of humanities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which is studying the international reaction to Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression from 1937 to 1945.