China Focus: 80 years on, China's WWII memories resist oblivion

CHONGQING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- In Yang Jianhong's childhood memories, the sound of international news crackling from a radio was as familiar as the scent of the plum candy.

His father, Yang Yangzheng, a quiet man of unshakable routines, would sit absorbed in the broadcasts, savoring the tart sweetness of those candies, a specialty from Shanghai.

It was only much later that Yang Jianhong understood the sig