Chinese Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Changsha fire (1938)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Changsha fire”
13 Nov 1938 — Panicked by Wuhan’s fall, the garrison fires the city ahead of an enemy still 100 km away: some 20,000–30,000 die in the accidental inferno. The war’s waste was not all inflicted by the enemy. (Changsha then repels three Japanese offensives, 1939–42 — the war’s stubborn hinge city.)
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- Sino-Japanese War stalemate (chapter 9 of Chinese Revolution)
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- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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