Please join us for a screening of Chinese director Jiang Nenjie's 2022 documentary The General's Guard 将军的卫士, followed by a Q&A with the director via zoom. In the upheaval of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, a young patriot Tang Menglong entered the ranks of General Song Xilian, rising from an eager recruit to a wartime aide. From battlefield glory to the disquiet of civil war and political campaigns after 1949, Tang’s life traces the fragile line between loyalty and survival in modern China’s shifting tides.
Author: Princeton University
Published at: 2026-04-04 22:22:11
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