Photo album published for Taiwan's liberation from Japanese occupation (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-10-24 15:37
A photo album was published in Beijing Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of
Taiwan's return to China from Japanese occupation at the end of World War II.
The album -- "Taiwan, treasured island of China" -- boasts 650 photos taken
by 146 photographers from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao
during more than a century, along with Chinese-English bilingual expositions.
The photos enliven the history of Taiwan, its economic development and
cultural progress, and the cross-Strait relations, Tian Henian, chief planner of
the album, said at the grand ceremony held Monday in the Great Hall of People.
The photo collection serves as convincing proof to the fact that as a
inseparable part of China, Taiwan has, since the ancient times, been related to
the Chinese nation as closely as flesh to blood, and that a kinship has always
bound the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, said Tian, also the
chairman of the Taiwan Guild Hall.
The album, co-compiled by Taiwan Guild Hall of United Front Work Department
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Department of
Photography of Xinhua News Agency, was published by the Sino-Culture Press.
On October 25, 1945, the Japanese colonialists surrendered to the Chinese
government, ending its 50-year occupation of Taiwan.
Chinese people of all walks of life are holding various activities recently,
including seminars, exhibitions and evening shows, to commemorate the 60th
anniversary that falls on Tuesday.
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