国内英语资讯:Exhibits underline Chinas contribution to world peace 8 decades ago_时事

国内英语资讯:Exhibits underline Chinas contribution to world peace 8 decades ago

SAN FRANCISCO, July 7 -- Exhibits of cultural relics showed the enthusiastic support of overseas Chinese for the motherland and China's contribution to world peace eight decades ago, the chief of an American collector's club told Xinhua Saturday.

On display for the 81th anniversary of the start of China's comprehensive defense against Japanese invasion, the exhibits serve as a reminder of the Chinese people's courageous fight against Japanese imperial troops, said Sihong Zhao, secretary-general of the American Chinese Collector's Club (ACCC) and president of the collection firm, San Francisco Han Fen Lou Wai Lou.

The plethora of exhibits include historical literature, pictures, books, photos, textbooks, letters, first-day cover stamps, envelopes and other items.

"The date of July 7 is a bitter memory of the dark days for the Chinese people because it was on this very day that the Japanese aggressors launched a full-scale invasion of China by plotting the Lugou Bridge Incident, or better known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in the West, on July 7, 1937," she said.

The Japanese aggression aroused sympathy and the spirit of patriotism among overseas Chinese in San Francisco on the U.S. west coast, who volunteered to make every effort to support their Chinese compatriots in the fight against Japanese aggression, Zhao said.

Among the exhibits is an unforgettable piece of test paper by a San Francisco primary school six-year grader, who wrote a short essay, On Patriotism, to condemn the barbarous Japanese bombing of the Chinese people.