Transcontinental phenomena

Photo shows editor Roy Takeno reading a copy of the Manzanar Free Press in front of the newspaper office at the Manzanar War Relocation Center; with mountains in the background.
During World War II approximately 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent were relocated and interned in camps in the western interior of the United States, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. The internment was ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

Construction of St. Michael’s Cathedral began in 1932 in Qingdao, China. Plans and construction were overseen by Germans. The church was heavily damaged during the Cultural Revolution but in 1982 the Chinese government decided to restore it.

Chinatown in San Francisco.

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Poster warning young women emigrating from Germany about the dangers of human trafficking (ca. 1900-1910) by Otto Goetze (1868-1931) (wikimedia commons) (Quelle: <=““ a=““>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_human_traffic.JPG).

Bust of John Paul II in Nagasaki, Japan.

The Beijing Exhibition Center (北京展览馆) was built in 1954. It is considered as one of the most prominent buildings in the Sino-Soviet architectural style in Beijing. Its name is inscribed above the entrance in five characters that are designed in the calligraphic style of Mao Zedong. When it was opened in September 1954 this name still read as “Exhibition Hall of the Soviet Union” (苏联展览馆) but in 1958 was changed at Zhou Enlai’s suggestion to its current name. The first political leader from the Soviet Union to visit the exhibition hall was Khrushchev. The exhibition hall encompasses three large exhibition halls as well as a museum and has been used for trade fairs and exhibitions since its opening.

Japanese postcard from Qingdao (Tsing-tau), probabl. 1914/1915. The text on the postcard celebrates the takeover of the German model colony by Japan after the outbreak of WW I on the one hand and on the other mocks the ‘moping’ vice admiral Alfred Meyer-Waldeck (1864-1928), who was the last German governor of Jiaozhou (source: privately owned).

Propaganda poster for United China Relief (1940s), on which Uncle Sam shakes hands with a soldier of the Kuomintang (KMT) army. In the background is an image of Sun Yat-sen (1886-1925), the founding father of modern China. His political philosophy was heavily influenced by American progressivism and his “Three Principles of the People” reflects the spirit of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (“government of the people, by the people and for the people”). On the left and right of his likeness one can read his political legacy, according to which the revolution has not yet been achieved and the struggle has to continue (source: digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc472/, accessed last on February 24 2017; University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department).