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A Cemetery and the Work of Commemoration

At Tengchong’s Guoshang Cemetery, remembrance is arranged through a memorial hall, graves and named records.

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The 1944 campaign and a memorial landscape

A Baoshan municipal account places the Guoshang Cemetery and memorial hall within the 1944 campaign in western Yunnan. It records a 43-day battle for Tengchong and the city’s recapture on 14 September 1944. These dates and the campaign sequence are the municipal account’s historical framing.

The same page reports 3,346 Chinese expeditionary-force tombstones and 19 Allied tombstones at the cemetery. It says the memorial hall opened in 2013. The figures describe the institution’s record of commemoration: a burial ground and exhibition space now hold the memory of a battle in a later civic setting.

Guoshang Cemetery, Tengchong: entrance and memorial hall.
Guoshang Cemetery, Tengchong: entrance and memorial hall.

A place of burial and public memory

The cemetery brings the 1944 campaign into a later civic landscape. Rows of expeditionary-force and Allied markers sit beside a memorial hall opened in 2013, giving remembrance both a burial ground and a public place for historical interpretation.

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  1. Guoshang Cemetery, Tengchong: entrance and memorial hall.曹喵 · 2013-09-10 12:02:41 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.