National Heroes Cemetery
The cemetery of the national hero ( Chinese 国殇墓园 , Pinyin Guoshang Muyuan , English Graveyard of the National Heroes / Tengchong War Cemetery in Tengchong War Cemetery / etc. ) In the circle Tengchong southwest China province of Yunnan is a military cemetery from the Second Sino-Japanese War . At the cemetery about 1 km in the west of the district town on the northern slope of Laifeng Shan are thousands of Chinese soldiers buried during the war in the united front against the from Burma operating Japanese from Chinese nationalists and communists , supported by Americans (see Flying Tigers ) fell when retaking the city. The cemetery has an area of 53,000 square meters.
monument
The cemetery has been listed as a historical monument by Yunnan Province . The cemetery has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (4-246) since 1996 .
literature
- Quanguo zhongdian wenwu baohu danwei (di-yi pi zhi di-yu pi) ( 全国 重点 文物保护 单位 (第 一批 至 第五批) - "Monuments of the People's Republic of China (monuments of the 1st to 5th list)"), Beijing : Wenwu chubanshe 2004, 3 vols., ISBN 978-7-5010-1525-2 . (The short article on the cemetery in Volume III, p. 252.)
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Coordinates: 25 ° 1 ′ 42.9 ″ N , 98 ° 28 ′ 54.3 ″ E