13/05/2025
POSTPONED AND RESCHEDULED! Rare opportunity to join an R.A.S.
sponsored tour of the site of Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, the Japanese WWII internment camp featured in J.G.Ballard’s semi-fictional novel EMPIRE OF THE SUN (and 1990s Steven Spielberg film adaptation starring John Malkovich and a young Christian Bale). We will meet on Friday May 30 at 4:30 pm at the gate of SHSID with Lunghua and J.G. Ballard scholar Sven A.Serrano who will be your guide. Use the RAS link, include ‘Friend of Sven’ and enjoy a discounted non-RAS member ticket price of 100 RMB. DM me at [email protected] so I know you are coming.
RAS General ProgramsLunghua Civilian Assembly Center WalkMonday, 19 May 20254:30 pm to 6:30 pmFrom mid-1943 to September 1945 the Japanese occupation authorities interned over 1,900 Allied civilians, men, women and children from the U.S., the U.K., British Commonwealth and other Allied nations in a....
