Invaluable letters for my country

Priceless treasures: Zhang is passionate about collecting and documenting personal letters as they hold valuable insights to a bygone era.

A campaign to collect letters from the common people is offering a glimpse into China’s history during World War II

WHILE advanced telecommunication technologies manifest in the form of a palm-sized device now, people had to rely on handwritten letters to communicate just a few decades ago.

It now takes just a few seconds for messages to get across electronically, but in the bygone era, letters took days, even months, to reach the recipients.