Chinese children's crying photos were published, causing global outrage, and the photographer was wanted every day
In August 1937, a ** caused an uproar around the world, and this ** was the world-famous "Chinese Doll". * When the magazine was released in the United States, it became an instant sensation, and the magazine sold 160 million copies in just one day.
The ** of "Chinese Doll" has also caused fierce debate around the world.
Popular anger was directed at Japan, which insisted that the ** was a forgery. This photo was taken on August 28, 1937, when the Japanese army attacked Shanghai, and the citizens of Shanghai fled to the concession or tried to leave by train to escape the war.
Where can you find a place of tranquility in war-torn China? Shanghai citizens flocked to the South Railway Station, hoping that the long-delayed train would take them away from the fighting. The train finally arrived, and the citizens in the station flocked to the train, pushing and shoving, and the noise came and went.
In the chaos, many people were hurt, and some were weeping because of the separation.
The train slowly left the platform, and the citizens of Shanghai who could not board the train were frustrated and eagerly awaited the arrival of the next train. When everyone was looking forward to it, suddenly there was a roar in the air, and several black shadows fell from the sky.
Someone took out a telescope to look at it, and was horrified to find that it was a Japanese bomber, and those increasingly large black shadows were actually Japanese bombs. Shanghai South Railway Station was suddenly in a panic, and people cried and tried to flee, but in the chaos no one could get out, but more people were injured.
Faced with the dilemma of having no way to escape, many people sat on the ground in despair and cried bitterly, and the staff at the train station even took out a pen and paper to write a suicide note.
The bomb hit the Shanghai South Railway Station with precision, unleashing a relentless destructive force. The platform was overturned by the shock wave, which suppressed the crowd and caused immeasurable **. The entire Shanghai South Railway Station was immersed in pain and terror, drenched in blood, and full of stumps and broken arms.
Even the surrounding buildings were not spared. The bombing resulted in the loss of countless lives and few survivors. Among these survivors was a baby who sat on the remaining train platform crying.
After seeing the successful bombing, the Japanese army triumphantly flew the bomber away from the sky of Shanghai. At that time, Chinese American reporter Wang Xiaoting rushed to hear the news, saw the child, and took this famous ** "Chinese Doll".
Who is this doll? In 1936, the Wang family in Shanghai added a male child. The child's father named him Wang Jiasheng, hoping that he could bring good luck to the family and make the family's fortune rise.
However, the arrival of war shattered the otherwise peaceful life. After receiving the news that the Japanese army was about to attack Shanghai, Wang Shaohua and his family decided to flee Shanghai on August 28, 1937.
They decided to find a new home in Guilin, and for this they planned to go to Shanghai South Railway Station and take a train heading south. But they did not foresee that a catastrophe was coming.
The resistance of the Chinese ** people provoked the aggression of the Japanese army, and at the same time in several other theaters, the Japanese suffered **, which made them crazy and decided to retaliate.
They fought back not against the resisting squadrons, but at innocent and unarmed civilians. And in Shanghai, where they were about to attack, the Japanese army was ready to bomb in advance.
The Japanese invaders targeted transportation hubs such as Shanghai South Railway Station. At about 4:30 p.m., a Japanese reconnaissance plane flew over Shanghai. To their delight, Shanghai had almost no air defense facilities, and the site they had planned to bomb was empty.
Immediately afterwards, six Japanese bombers began to bomb indiscriminately, and the predetermined location was heavily bombarded by bombs. After the bomb fell, Shanghai South Railway Station seemed to be overturned and devastated.
A large number of buildings collapsed in the railway station and surrounding buildings, the platform overturned and crushed countless people, and the crowded crowd caused a large number of **.
In the rubble after the bombing, the station was in shambles, with countless dead and wounded. Only a baby, named Wang Jiasheng, cried lonely on the platform. The tragic death of his family in this brutal bombing left him in the abyss of despair.
Xiao Jiasheng cried helplessly on the broken platform, looking for a warm embrace. This photo titled "Chinese Doll" was taken by Wang Xiaoting. He originally planned to go to the platform to pick up Xiao Jiasheng and give him a warm home.
However, the moment he pressed the shutter, a heroic man rushed forward and carried Xiao Jiasheng away from the dangerous platform, bringing him new hope. This ** records the suffering of this country in the war, and also shows the people's cherishing of life and care for the weak.
It makes us deeply feel the cruelty of war, and it also allows us to see the brilliance of humanity.
Wang Xiaoting, a Chinese-American born in 1900, is an internationally renowned Chinese-American journalist and an employee of the International News Agency. During his time as a photographer, he took a photo of a small Jiasheng and his family.
When Xiao Jiasheng was out of danger, Wang Xiaoting was relieved and followed the rescue team to rescue the people at the scene. However, after the rescue, he did not see the poor child again.
Since then, Wang Xiaoting has been searching for the whereabouts of the child.
Over the past two years, he has discovered that he loves capturing real ** and events more than making fake films. He believes that it is far more meaningful to use a camera to record real historical events than to make fake movies.
So, in 1923, Wang Xiaoting decided to leave the film company and join the American Adventure Group, going deep into Mongolia, Xinjiang, ** and other places to conduct field investigations. He spent more than two years shuttling between deserts, mountains, snow-capped mountains and meadows, capturing scenic spots, historical sites and folklore along the way.
Eventually, the documentary films and ** of these field trips won wide acclaim, and Wang Xiaoting became a pioneer in the Chinese world of photojournalism.
After Wang Xiaoting returned to Shanghai, the International News Agency heard about his talent and invited him to work as a photojournalist for the agency, and became an assistant and Chinese translator for American photographer Fan Jishi.
He hated the war so much that when he learned that the Japanese were about to attack Shanghai, he did not choose to flee, but decided to stay and record the crimes of the Japanese army with his camera. When he learned of the bombing of the Shanghai South Railway Station, he immediately rushed to the scene and used his camera to record the atrocities committed by the Japanese army against civilians, including his photograph of "China Doll", which was later named "China Doll" and appeared in the American magazine "Life".
This was printed on posters of the Red Cross and national bonds by the United States, and was sent around the world as a postcard. This ** has sparked widespread global attention and condemnation of the brutality of the Japanese army.
According to statistics, the Japanese dropped more than 20 bombs at Shanghai South Railway Station, which was occupied by more than 18,000 people at that time. More than 250 people died immediately and more than 500 were injured after the bomb was dropped.
Shanghai's railway transport hub was also destroyed.
Wang Xiaoting's ** has experienced twists and turns from China to Manila and then to New York, and was finally taken by the global 13.6 billion people see. This revealed the militaristic heart hidden under the so-called Sino-Japanese friendship of the Japanese, and triggered the international community's condemnation of the atrocities of the Japanese army and demanded that they be responsible for the explanation.
Although the Japanese army tried to argue the authenticity of **, the truth was still known to the world.
They quibbled: "This ** is fake, the child was not at the train station, but Wang Xiaoting brought it in from the outside." However, Wang Xiaoting's subsequent announcements, whether it was the broken building or the bloodstained platform, as well as the remains of Xiao Jiasheng's relatives, all revealed the hypocrisy of the Japanese at a glance.
In June 1938, the American Press Association awarded Wang Xiaoting a medal in recognition of his heroic behavior. After the Japanese learned of this, they hated Wang Xiaoting to the core, especially the Japanese secret services, which regarded Wang Xiaoting as the number one enemy, and issued a reward order of 150,000 US dollars, hoping to get Wang Xiaoting's head.
After learning that the Japanese had offered him a reward, Wang Xiaoting began to live incognito. Later, with the help of the British, Wang Xiaoting and his family successfully escaped to Hong Kong.
Despite arriving in Hong Kong, Wang Xiaoting still did not stop searching for Xiao Jiasheng's whereabouts. Unfortunately, due to the domestic war, she searched for it in many ways, but in vain and had to give up.
However, Xiao Jiasheng had been safely taken away from the scene by a man before the search and rescue team arrived. The man then rushed into the train station in an attempt to find other survivors.
When the ICRC search and rescue team arrived, the scene was cleaned up and searched. According to the search and rescue team, many people could have been rescued.
The repeated bombardment of the Japanese army reduced the entire station to rubble, and most of the people were unfortunately killed, but one of the small Jiasheng miraculously survived. Red Cross search and rescue team members took Xiao Jiasheng away after confirming that his family was no longer alive.
The search and rescue team members who originally planned to send Xiao Jiasheng to the welfare home decided to adopt him due to the sympathy and concern of one of the Soviet team members. Xiao Jiasheng was well educated and raised in the Soviet Union and grew up healthy.
Wang Jiasheng had experienced a special life in his childhood, which made him deeply disgusted and resistant to war. As an adult, he actively engaged in anti-aggression activities, especially propaganda about Shanghai South Railway Station**.
Every time he talks about this topic, his heart is heavy, because he knows the pain of war, and he hopes that there will be no more wars in the world and no more children displaced by war.
Wong often uses his own story as an example to encourage overseas Chinese to unite and call for peace. At the same time, he also does his part to do charity, organizing public welfare activities to help those children who have been displaced by the war.
His actions reflected his love for peace and his resolute opposition to war.
Wang Jiasheng, who is in his 80s and lives in Russia, is a testimony to the unforgivable mistakes made by Japan in China. Although he was lucky, the children who were killed at Shanghai South Railway Station like him, and the innocent people who were killed by the Japanese army throughout China, were extremely unlucky.
During the Sino-Japanese War, countless unarmed women, children and ordinary people were killed at the hands of the Japanese army.
Even if there are a very few lucky people like Wang Jiasheng who survived that catastrophe, their lives will be spent in that lingering shadow. At that time, countless people wanted to escape from the war, but the Japanese army smiled and burned the war to every inch of China.
For the survivors, the hope of survival became elusive, and the main culprit of all this was the Japanese invaders. Now, Wang Jiasheng, who is in his 80s, has set foot on Chinese soil again, and he can't help but have mixed feelings in his heart.
What was once a hometown has changed dramatically, but now it's even better. Our homeland has also become stronger. Now, we will never again have an aggressor set foot on our land, nor will an aggressor act recklessly within our borders.
These are all bought by our martyrs with their lives and sweat. We cannot choose for them to forgive or forget those who died in the war, but we can tell this history and expose that darkness.
Let the world see the madness and inhumanity of the Japanese aggressors, and nail these saboteurs of human civilization and shameless aggressors to the pillar of shame in history. Let us remember the pain and hurt caused by war and move the world towards peace.
It is hoped that every Chinese will remember the lessons of history, take history as a lesson, and never forget the national shame.