#hankow

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1930s.

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Japanese girl in Western outfit on a vintage postcard, mailed in 1904 to Hankow, modern-day Wuhan city, China

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Saburō Sakai dans le cockpit de son Mitsubishi A5M "Claude" - Hankow airfield – Guerre sino-japonaise – Chine – 1939

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1942 07 04 First Blood, Last Blood - Roy Grinnell

On December 20, 1941, Ed Rector of the American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) claimed one fo the first victories for the AVG over Kunming, China. Flying north from Hengyang on July 4, 1942, the Tigers encountered the 54 Hiko Sentai from Hankow, Rector, flying a P-40E with the 2nd Pursuit Squadron, downed Flight Sergeant Shikaji Fujiro of the 3rd Chutai, one of the last victories for the AVG

[orthodoxydaily]

SAINTS&READING: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2024

october 7_october 20

HOLY HIERARCH JONAH OF MANDCHOURIE (195)

Today, we celebrate a wonderful saint of the Church who has lived in recent times. He was a righteous bishop, a great ascetic, and a loving and caring pastor to his flock and to all those whom he encountered. He lived much of his life in China, where he founded orphanages, schools, hospitals, and what we would call today ‘soup kitchens’ for the poor. Perhaps you think I am speaking of our beloved St John of Shanghai and San Francisco? But no, this righteous one we commemorate today reposed on this day 99 years ago in 1925. Who was this man?... his name was Bishop Jonah of Hankow in Manchuria.

Bishop Jonah was born as Vladimir Pokrovsky on April 17th, 1888 to a peasant family in the Kozelsk district of Kaluga governate. Little Vladimir was orphaned early in childhood and was adopted by a deacon of the Church with the named Pokrovsky. He grew up in poverty, yet he excelled in his studies – learning Church Slavonic and graduating at the top of his class at the Kazan Theological Academy. In his third year at the academy he received the monastic tonsure, and went to Optina Monastery, where he received guidance in the monastic life from the holy Optina elders Joseph and Anatoly. It was there, in Optina, that he was ordained as a hieromonk.

He returned to the Kazan Theological Academy and was made a professor. In 1916, during World War 1, the priest-monk Jonah was assigned as a chaplain for the Russian Army. Not long after this, the terrible events of the Russian Revolution unfolded. Hieromonk Jonah was arrested and beaten to unconsciousness by the satanically-charged Bolsheviks. He was banished and sent to be tried in Siberia. By God’s providence, it was as he was enroute to Siberia that he was freed by the White Army and he was able to serve again as an Army Chaplain for a short while. As the chaos of the war and revolution continued to go on, Fr Jonah and his battalion were able to retreat across the eastern frontier of China. The hardships of their trek across the Gobi desert and then across the Pamir mountains is the stuff of legends… they suffered so much.

Having finally arrived in Shanghai, Fr Jonah was then appointed to a mission church in Beijing. In September of 1922, he was consecrated Bishop of Tianjin and appointed as rector of the St Innocent Missionary Cathedral in Manzhouli. A parishioner of the Cathedral wrote the following reflections about the arrival of their new bishop: ‘Everybody remembers the arrival of the bishop in Manzhouli. All expected him to be full of greatness, importance, and inaccessibility. But Bishop Jonah knew where and to whom he was going. He knew who and what awaited him. The destitute were waiting for him, and he came to them. He has come not just as a prince of Church but as a loving friend and father—modestly, with affection and consolation for all. All were amazed by the extraordinary simplicity and availability of the archpastor upon his arrival. As a bright icon lamp lit in Manzhouli, the activity of Bishop Jonah has lit up like the face of Christ, calling to sufferers: “Come to me all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give rest to your souls.” All felt joy, for they understood that not all is lost when they have heard the vigorous appeal: “There is a way out—belief in God and love for your neighbors.” With this appeal for belief in God and love for neighbors began Vladika’s archpastoral activity. But words were not enough. Work was required. Huge work was needed. And work has begun... Not sparing his strength and health, and forgetting himself, he has given himself to the service of God and neighbors.’

Bishop Jonah poured himself out in his service to his flock… and that flock consisted not just of his Orthodox parishioners, but of every soul he met in the surrounding community. Seeing the needs of so many suffering children, he founded an orphanage. The childrens’ shelter Bishop Jonah had established was his joy and consolation. When he grew weary, he would go and ‘spend time with the youngsters,’ as he would say. By the time of his death, the orphanage had space for forty children ages five to fourteen. There was a free elementary school and high school for up to five hundred students, with a cafeteria that fed two hundred people per day for free. An outpatient clinic provided medical aid and medicines to the poorest people of Manzhouli, free of charge. A library and reading room was set up for the people of Manzhouli, where books were also sold.

In the three short years of his episcopate, he fulfilled Christ’s principal commandment of love of neighbor to such a degree that it would take even a diligent worker several decades to do as much. The dimensions and strength of this activity were remembered equally by the Orthodox and non-Orthodox. His Eminence Melety, then Bishop of Zabaikal, precisely summed up Bishop Jonah’s activity: ‘He fed the hungry, gave drink to the thirsty, took in strangers, clothed the naked, and visited the sick.’

Bishop Jonah truly held all his flock and everyone’s sorrows in his heart. At the still young age of 37, that loving heart developed physical problems and it was not long before he found himself on his deathbed. He was able to have confession and to receive the Holy Mysteries. He bade farewell to everyone, and, as Archbishop Melety read the prayers for the departure of the soul, he breathed his last and departed to the Lord.

The night of his repose, he appeared to a young boy who was paralyzed, telling him to ‘take his legs’, as he no longer had need for them. The boy awoke the next morning completely healed and able to walk.

The appreciation for the ascetic labors and the righteous life of Bishop Jonah was kept alive by all those that knew him. In response to the unanimous voice of Bishop Jonah's contemporaries —archpastors of the Far East, his clergy and flock—and revering his labors and accomplishments in the vineyard of Christ, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia determined in 1996 that Bishop Jonah of Hankow should be joined to the choirs of saints. The main service for this glorification took place right here at our Cathedral in San Francisco.

What a remarkable and wonderful saint we have in St. Jonah of Manchuria! May his memory be kept by all Orthodox Christians struggling to live our Christian lives in these modern times. As St. Jonah demonstrates for us, sanctity is possible in all places and times because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever!    

Archpriest Martin Person (ROCOR)

MARTYRS SERGIUS AND BACCHUS IN SYRIA (290-303).

The Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus in Syria were appointed to high positions in the army by the emperor Maximian (284-305), who did not know they were Christians. Envious people informed Maximian that his two trusted counselors did not honor the pagan gods, which was considered a crime against the state.

Maximian commanded that the martyrs be stripped of the insignia of military rank (their belts, gold pendants, and rings), and then dressed them in feminine clothing. They were led through the city with an iron chains around their necks, and the people mocked them. Then he summoned Sergius and Bacchus to him again and in a friendly manner advised them not to be swayed by Christian fables, but to return to the Roman gods. The saints refuted the emperor’s words, and demonstrated the folly of worshiping the pagan gods.

The emperor commanded that they be sent to the governor of the eastern part of Syria, Antiochus, a fierce hater of Christians. Antiochus had received his position with the help of Sergius and Bacchus. “My fathers and benefactors!” he said. “Have pity on yourselves, and also on me. I do not want to condemn my benefactors to cruel tortures.” The holy martyrs replied, “For us life is Christ, and to die is gain.” The enraged Antiochus ordered Bacchus to be mercilessly beaten, and the holy martyr surrendered his soul to the Lord. They shod Sergius with iron sandals with nails in their soles and sent him to another city, where he was beheaded with the sword.

2 Corinthians 6:16-7:1

16 And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. God said: "I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people." 17 Therefore Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you." 18 I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty."

1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Luke 7:11-16

11 Now it happened, the day after, that He went into a city called Nain; many of His disciples and a large crowd went with Him. 12 And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, He had compassion and said to her, "Do not weep." 14 Then He came and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him stood still. And He said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." 15 So he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his mother. 16 Then fear came upon all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has risen up among us"; and, "God has visited His people."

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USS Houston (CA-30), flagship of the U.S. Asiatic fleet, at Hankow, China, circa 1932. USS Palos (PR-1) is steaming by.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 81327, NH 81251, NH 81252, NH 81253

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IJA soldiers storm positions near Hankow with air support, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Events 12.18 (before 1960)

1118 – The city of Zaragoza is conquered by king Alfonso I of Aragon from the Almoravid. 1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China. 1499 – A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain. 1601–1900 1622 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola. 1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290. 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October. 1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. 1833 – The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed. 1854 – The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system. 1865 – US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the United States. 1867 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people. 1878 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar. 1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 63.159 km/h (39.245 mph) in a Jeantaud electric car. 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks. 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress. 1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship. 1935 – The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon. 1939 – World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place. 1944 – World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China. 1944 – The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States. 1957 – A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois. 1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Chinese Offensive Reported," St. Catharines Standard. October 9, 1941. Page 1 & 8. --- Greatest Drive in Four Year War Is Underway ---- ICHANG IS OBJECTIVE ---- Yangtze Treaty Port Said Ordered Taken by Chiang Kai-Shek ---- SHANGHAI, Oct. 9. -The greatest offensive of the Chinese army in 44 years of warfare is apparently under way, Japanese army sources said today.

Attacked Japs They reported that 80,000 Chungking troops attacked Japanese forces Oct. 3 on all fronts of Central China and said fighting remained in progress north, west and south of Japanese-held Hankow, Yangtze river port.

Japanese said the principal Chinese objective was Ichang, which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek ordered recaptured. It was acknowledged a Chinese division had occupied some frontal positions there briefly. The Japanese claimed they later recaptured those positions, with Chinese losses of 300 dead and 100 prisoners.

(Chinese said Tuesday Chinese troops were battling with Japanese in the streets of Ichang, a Yangtze treaty port and western-most zone of Japanese penetration. A Chinese communique last night declared five strategic points around Ichang had been captured and that the Japanese position in that city was precarious).

Japanese sources admitted that Chinese lines about Ichang were only a few hundred yards from the defences, but claimed the attackers had been unable to face Japanese artillery.

Reports of a Chinese counter-attack at Chengchow were not con- firmed, but the Japanese admitted Chinese forces were assembling only five miles south of that city.

Japanese headquarters at Hankow said that its Changsha campaign-a drive south in which the Japanese claimed temporary possession of the Hunan province capital-had been completed and that the troops had returned to their bases on the south bank of the Yangtze.

This was a withdrawal of 90 miles in seven days, (Chaungking sources said it was a retreat in which the invaders were harassed by Chinese forces).

Foreign military observers said they believed the Chinese had seized the initiative in central China in an effort to take advantage of a Japanese concentration for Changsha and Chengchow drives.

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[blue-thief]

gonna use this as an opportunity to plug some info about japan's war crimes because we never talk about this in the west. if anyone has anything they would like to add on, go ahead because most of my knowledge is about the philippines specifically and a little bit about china.

(tw for rape, democide & genocide, torture, unethical medical experiments, war crimes in general, etc.)

the actual statistics of how many people died in a multitude of countries across asia

the manchurian incident

comfort women

the rape of nanking (also recommend: the poppy war series by rf kuang which includes a fictionalized version of many of the war crimes committed by japan on china, as well as the aftermath)

unit 731

the battle of manila

the battle of bataan & the bataan death march

propaganda in the philippines

begging everyone who is NOT a part of a group historically targeted by the nazis and/or the japanese imperial army to just listen for a moment. while the INTENTION may have been to portray kaiser in a WWI uniform, his clothing does still resemble what actual nazis wore. furthermore, you can't have a conversation about german history by ignoring the connections between WWI and WWII. the IMPACT is the repeated romanticization of the image of the axis powers in animanga, fuelling further ignorance in general japanese society.

korean fans are pissed, and rightfully so, because how many more times are non-japanese east and southeast asians supposed to forgive japanese ignorance when we've repeatedly criticized the romanticization of modern and contemporary japanese militarization in so many animanga franchises?? it's happened with hetalia, attack on titan, bungou stray dogs, and so many other franchises. it's not fun seeing the people who have raped, murdered, and tortured your relatives and their allies be portrayed in a cool and bad-ass way in anime.

there may be some mistakes here but i literally just woke up, and i woke up to this. dumb comments from non-affected groups will be blocked.

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1937 Martin B-10 Model 139WC China - Stan Hajek - Special Hobby

14 Chungtui (International Volunteer Sqn.) White 3001September1937 2nd Sino-Japanese War - Hankow

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“Yangtse River, Showing Hankow from Wuhan, China.”

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Hankow, Robert Capa, 1938

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"Crowning" the landlords and parading them through the villages. This sort of thing is very common. A tall paper-hat is stuck on the head of one of the local tyrants or evil gentry, bearing the words "Local tyrant so-and-so" or "So-and-so of the evil gentry". He is led by a rope and escorted with big crowds in front and behind. Sometimes brass gongs are beaten and flags waved to attract people's attention. This form of punishment more than any other makes the local tyrants and evil gentry tremble. Anyone who has once been crowned with a tall paper-hat loses face altogether and can never again hold up his head. Hence many of the rich prefer being fined to wearing the tall hat. But wear it they must, if the peasants insist. One ingenious township peasant association arrested an obnoxious member of the gentry and announced that he was to be crowned that very day. The man turned blue with fear. Then the association decided not to crown him that day. They argued that if he were crowned right away, he would become case-hardened and no longer afraid, and that it would be better to let him go home and crown him some other day. Not knowing when he would be crowned, the man was in daily suspense, unable to sit down or sleep at ease.

Locking up the landlords in the county jail. This is a heavier punishment than wearing the tall paper-hat. A local tyrant or one of the evil gentry is arrested and sent to the county jail; he is locked up and the county magistrate has to try him and punish him. Today the people who are locked up are no longer the same. Formerly it was the gentry who sent peasants to be locked up, now it is the other way round.

"Banishment". The peasants have no desire to banish the most notorious criminals among the local tyrants and evil gentry, but would rather arrest or execute them. Afraid of being arrested or executed, they run away. In counties where the peasant movement is well developed, almost all the important local tyrants and evil gentry have fled, and this amounts to banishment. Among them, the top ones have fled to Shanghai, those of the second rank to Hankow, those of the third to Changsha, and of the fourth to the county towns. Of all the fugitive local tyrants and evil gentry, those who have fled to Shanghai are the safest. Some of those who fled to Hankow, like the three from Huajung, were eventually captured and brought back. Those who fled to Changsha are in still greater danger of being seized at any moment by students in the provincial capital who hail from their counties; I myself saw two captured in Changsha. Those who have taken refuge in the county towns are only of the fourth rank, and the peasantry, having many eyes and ears, can easily track them down. The financial authorities once explained the difficulties encountered by the Hunan Provincial Government in raising money by the fact that the peasants were banishing the well-to-do, which gives some idea of the extent to which the local tyrants and evil gentry are not tolerated in their home villages.

Execution. This is confined to the worst local tyrants and evil gentry and is carried out by the peasants jointly with other sections of the people. For instance, Yang Chih-tse of Ninghsiang, Chou Chia-kan of Yuehyang and Fu Tao-nan and Sun Po-chu of Huajung were shot by the government authorities at the insistence of the peasants and other sections of the people. In the case of Yen Jung-chiu of Hsiangtan, the peasants and other sections of the people compelled the magistrate to agree to hand him over, and the peasants themselves executed him. Liu Chao of Ninghsiang was killed by the peasants. The execution of Peng Chih-fan of Liling and Chou Tien-chueh and Tsao Yun of Yiyang is pending, subject to the decision of the "special tribunal for trying local tyrants and evil gentry". The execution of one such big landlord reverberates through a whole county and is very effective in eradicating the remaining evils of feudalism.

Every county has these major tyrants, some as many as several dozen and others at least a few, and the only effective way of suppressing the reactionaries is to execute at least a few in each county who are guilty of the most heinous crimes. When the local tyrants and evil gentry were at the height of their power, they literally slaughtered peasants without batting an eyelid. Ho Maichuan, for ten years head of the defence corps in the town of Hsinkang, Changsha County, was personally responsible for killing almost a thousand poverty-stricken peasants, which he euphemistically described as "executing bandits". In my native county of Hsiangtan, Tang Chun-yen and Lo Shu-lin who headed the defence corps in the town of Yintien have killed more than fifty people and buried four alive in the fourteen years since 1913. Of the more than fifty they murdered, the first two were perfectly innocent beggars. Tang Chunyen said, "Let me make a start by killing a couple of beggars!" and so these two lives were snuffed out. Such was the cruelty of the local tyrants and evil gentry in former days, such was the White terror they created in the countryside, and now that the peasants have risen and shot a few and created just a little terror in suppressing the counter-revolutionaries, is there any reason for saying they should not do so?

Imposing fines. The peasants work out fines for such offences as irregularities revealed by the checking of accounts, past outrages against the peasants, current activities which undermine the peasant associations, violations of the ban on gambling and refusal to surrender opium pipes. This local tyrant must pay so much, that member of the evil gentry so much, the sums ranging from tens to thousands of yuan Naturally, a man who has been fined by the peasants completely loses face.

Levying contributions. The unscrupulous rich landlords are made to contribute for poor relief, for the organization of co-operatives or peasant credit societies, or for other purposes. Though milder than fines, these contributions are also a form of punishment. To avoid trouble, quite a number of landlords make voluntary contributions to the peasant associations.

Minor protests. When someone harms a peasant association by word or deed and the offence is a minor one, the peasants collect in a crowd and swarm into the offender's house to remonstrate with him. He is usually let off after writing a pledge to "cease and desist", in which he explicitly undertakes to stop defaming the peasant association in the future.

Major demonstrations. A big crowd is rallied to demonstrate against a local tyrant or one of the evil gentry who is an enemy of the association. The demonstrators eat at the offender's house, slaughtering his pigs and consuming his grain as a matter of course. Quite a few such cases have occurred. There was a case recently at Machiaho, Hsiangtan County, where a crowd of fifteen thousand peasants went to the houses of six of the evil gentry and demonstrated; the whole affair lasted four days during which more than 130 pigs were killed and eaten. After such demonstrations, the peasants usually impose fines.

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If you want to protest go big or go home

Mao Zedong, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunnan