Acts of Remembrance

When the Memorial Hall of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the only museum in the country on Chinese volunteers’ participation in the Korean War (1950-53), reopened in the border city of Dandong, Liaoning Province in northeast China, in September, it triggered widespread reminiscences, especially this year being the 70th anniversary of the war.

Beijing resident Sun Yuhong’s father and uncle took part in the war. Finally, her father came back but her uncle didn’t. She began trying to find out what