The kid wrote that it was hoped that donations worth a bowl of rice could be saved among the overseas Chinese community to buy more clothes, wound dressings and other necessities for the Chinese people in their hard struggle against the invading Japanese troops.

Another special item on display is a black vinyl disc that recorded an album entitled Cheel Lai (Arise!), in which famous black singer Paul Robeson sang a song at a 1941 open-space concert in New York. The song was later adapted as the national anthem of the People's Republic of China founded in 1949.

"All these cultural relics are a true account of the joint endeavors of the overseas Chinese who stood up to oppose the Japanese aggression during WWII," Zhao said.

She said she and her colleagues have worked hard to collect valuable artifacts and relics from auction firms and flea markets that are related to stories about Chinese people's anti-Japanese aggression.

Over the past 12 years, Zhao and her team have collected more than 5,000 artifacts, usually with their own money, which they then donated to museums or libraries in China, such as the National Museum of China and the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

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