WRECKED: The bullet-ridden British Legation after the Boxer siege in which George Morrison was badly wounded helping Chinese refugees. Australian War Memorial Negative Number P00417.009
ANGRY: A crudely armed Boxer with imperial soldiers, as depicted by a Western artist. The Boxers murdered Chinese Christians and besieged the Foreign Quarter of Peking during the rebellion. The Granger Collection/Topfoto
LEGEND: William Henry Donald of Lithgow, NSW, was closely involved with China’s affairs for four decades, serving as adviser of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Mayling Soong Chiang. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
WEDDING: In 1904, Bill Donald married English-born Mary Wall in Hong Kong. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
DAUGHTER: Muriel Donald, born in Hong Kong on 22 July 1909, was the Donalds’ only child. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
UNITED: William Henry Donald, hat in hand and tie askew, with Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai circa 1937. According to the American spy James McHugh, Donald was bound to the former Mayling Soong by blind faith and devotion, but she ultimately betrayed him. Associated Press
BEFORE: The city of Hankow on the Yangtze prior to the revolution of 1911. Press Association
AFTER: The city of Hankow on the Yangtze blazing fiercely during fighting between revolutionaries and Manchu troops. Press Association
Majestic: warlord Yuan Shi-kai is borne aloft at his inauguration as second president of the Republic of China in 1913. Press Association
REVERED: A bronze sculpture of Sun Yat-sen, first president of the Chinese Republic and known today as ‘the Great Forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution’, sits outside a museum devoted to his life in the former Frenchtown, Shanghai. Author’s collection
POWER PAIR: Sun Yat-sen’s protégé, Chiang Kai-shek, pictured with his wife, Mayling Soong Chiang, in Cairo during a summit meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt in November 1943. Australia’s Prime Minister John Curtin was not invited, even though the meeting discussed vital strategic and political matters relating to the Pacific War. Australian War Memorial Negative Number MED2043.
Chiang Kai-shek with Sun Yat-sen at the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924. Press Association
MORTAL ENEMIES: Communist leader Mao Tse-tung drinks a toast with his Nationalist rival Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking to celebrate Japan’s defeat in World War II. Australian War Memorial Negative Number P02018.416, Press Association
Mao, as a young Communist firebrand, then drove Chiang out of China and declared the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949. Australian War Memorial Negative Number P02018.416, Press Association
COLD WAR THAW: Australia’s Prime Minister Gough Whitlam meets an aging Chairman Mao Tse-tung of the People’s Republic of China in Peking during his historic 1973 visit behind the Bamboo Curtain. National Archives of Australia: M2153, 18/5
HEROINE: Eleanor Mary Hinder, the Australian who tackled child labour in Shanghai’s sweatshops and the enforced prostitution of young Chinese women. Eleanor fell in love with American consul Viola Smith, who fought to liberate her after she was trapped by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai in World War II. Carl Mydans/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
WITNESS: Colin Malcolm McDonald, who followed George Morrison as Times correspondent, was on board the gunboat USS Panay when it was bombed by the Japanese in December 1937. He also reported the Rape of Nanking. University of Western AustraliaCarl Mydans/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
FREED: William Henry Donald poses under a Manila palm tree for his friend Carl Mydans of Life magazine, following his release from the Los Banos internment camp in February 1945. The Japanese had Donald in their clutches but failed to recognise him. Carl Mydans/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
RAGING: The Bull on the Bund sculpture in front of the former Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building (now the Bank of China) and the former Shanghai Custom House. The Bull was designed especially for Shanghai by Arturo Ugo Di Modica, the Italian–American creator of Wall Street’s famous Charging Bull. Author’s collection
ROARING: Stitt and Stephen, the two bronze lions outside the former Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building, named after two of the bank’s former managers. Author’s collection
WAITING FOR WAR: Shanghai police and British troops man a barricade in Nanking Road during the First Battle of Shanghai in January 1932. Thomas Macauley Collection
VOLUNTEERS: Westerners prepare barricades in Shanghai to withstand the Japanese assault. These men are probably members of the Shanghai Volunteer Force. Thomas Macauley Collection
Chinese civilians are searched by a Japanese marine while one of the Japanese civilian ruffians known as ronin (wearing the hat) looks on.Thomas Macauley Collection
Japanese troops in action in Shanghai during the 1932 campaign against China. Thomas Macauley Collection
Japanese troops in action in Shanghai during the 1932 campaign against China. Thomas Macauley Collection
ARMOUR: Two Japanese tankettes, armed with machine guns, rumble up to reinforce the Japanese frontline. Thomas Macauley Collection
Steel-helmeted Japanese marines and soldiers prepare to repel a Chinese assault with fixed bayonets. Thomas Macauley Collection
SILHOUETTE: Japanese soldiers attack a Chinese position during the Battle of Shanghai. Thomas Macauley Collection
SHADE: Heavily armed Japanese troops move stealthily through a bamboo thicket. Thomas Macauley Collection
CROSSING: Japanese troops use improvised rafts to cross a canal outside Shanghai. Thomas Macauley Collection
BANZAI: Cheering Japanese troops pose for a propaganda photograph during the Battle of Shanghai, but they could not beat the 19th Route Army and were forced to negotiate a ceasefire with the Chinese. Thomas Macauley Collection
CARNAGE: Rescuers carry a mutilated body from the scene of the bomb blast in August 1937 outside the Cathay Hotel on the corner of The Bund and Nanking Road. Pictures Inc./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
DEATH SHIP: The Japanese cruiser Idzumo moored beside ‘Little Tokyo’ in the Whangpoo River and acted as a floating battery to destroy large parts of Chinese Shanghai in 1932 and 1937. Thomas Macauley Collection
HEROIC: Gordon Bowden (third from left), the Australian Trade Commissioner brutally murdered by the Japanese, relaxes with friends and members of his family at a St George’s night dance at the French Club in pre-war Shanghai. Courtesy of Ivor Bowden
HISTORIC: The offices of the North-China Daily News where Ivor Bowden watched the Battle of Chapei with his father, Gordon Bowden, in 1932 and, on the right, the art-deco Palace Hotel on the corner of Nanking Road and The Bund, scene of the devastating bomb blast in August 1937. Author’s collection
TRAITOR: Alan Willoughby Raymond, photographed during World War II, collaborated with the Japanese in Shanghai during the war but escaped being tried for treason. Author’s collection
PROGRESS: With the futuristic Pearl TV Tower taking centre stage, the modern skyline of Pudong (formerly Pootung) on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River houses Shanghai’s new financial district. Author’s collection
EXHIBITION: Detail from the façade of the Australian Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo. Author’s collection
EXHIBITION: Nanjing Road today. Author’s collection
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