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Seven Clay Models and the Shape of the Hongqi CA770

The Hongqi CA770 took shape through seven clay proposals, factory-wide review and a full-size model made under difficult workshop conditions. Jia Yanliang and Wang Zhen recall different parts of the design, while a later university-published design-history review places the sedan programme and its delivery milestones in a longer chronology.

The Factory That Learned to Build the Jiefang Truck

The Jiefang CA10 emerged from overseas training, Soviet technical assistance and factory adjustment. A 1956 newspaper report follows ten trial trucks from the moving line to engineering inspection, while FAW’s technical history records the later drive to improve the model for Chinese use.

Xinmin Street After the Ministries

Xinmin Street’s former State Council building embodied a Japanese-backed administration before becoming a medical teaching building. Its 2025 renewal connected courtyards and pocket parks to everyday walking routes while the avenue kept its university, hospital and museum uses.

Puyi’s Rooms in a Puppet Capital

Puyi’s former palace arranged authority across a reused salt office, private quarters and halls that combined political work and leisure. The complex’s rooms reveal how a Japanese-backed regime staged its court in Changchun.

Making a Foreign Film Speak Chinese

The Northeast Film Studio’s 1949 Chinese-language version of The Ordinary Soldier required translators and performers to fit spoken Chinese into the moving image. A stopwatch helped expose the timing mismatch; revised wording and delivery made the scene speak naturally.