China's first war photographers

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During China's Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and War of Liberation (1946-1949), more than 300 press photographers devoted themselves to capturing the campaigns on camera; one third of these 300 heroes got wounded or killed.

At the time of China's annual Reporters' Day (Nov. 8), China.org.cn has selected for you masterpieces by three Chinese veteran press photographers -- Yuan Kezhong, Yuan Ling and Shi Panqi -- through whose lenses we can grasp drastic moments in history.

Yuan Kezhong (1921-2007). Yuan was born in Shenze County of Hebei Province, joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938 and trained in a photographic class in 1940 in Central Hebei Military Region. He was in charge of two military regions related to photography during China's Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). He became a press-photographer in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Pictorial in 1945, and established People's Pictorial together with Pei Zhi in 1946. Yuan took up a job as a member of Xinhua News Agency in 1957, and shot tens of thousands of pictures.


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