Six and a half years of raids, and the tunnels under the city
The bombing of Chongqing from February 1938 to December 1944, the shelters cut into the hills, and what happened inside one of them on 5 June 1941.
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Shapingba District
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The university that took in the evacuated departments
Chongqing University was founded in 1929, moved to the Jialing in 1933, and spent the war sharing staff and credits with the National Central University.
Ciqikou: the port town that walked up the bank
How a Ming porcelain port on the Jialing became the wartime capital's guesthouse for artists, told through its stone lanes and its temple built without nails.
Xiaolongkan: the stair street on the ridge
A subdistrict of 0.97 square kilometres with narrow winding lanes, four neighbourhoods and a park at the highest point of central Shapingba.