'Empire of the Sun' internment camp forgotten in China

2014/02/04 05:17:53 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

No public memorial marks the former Shanghai internment camp made famous by JG Ballard & #039;s novel & quot;Empire of the Sun & quot;, where more than 1,800 foreigners were held by the Japanese during World War II. Ballard & #039;s fictionalised version of his experiences in the Lunghwa camp was published 30 years ago, followed in 1987 by the Steven Spielberg film starring a young Christian Bale as Jim Graham, a boy who comes of age on his own in the facility. A far smaller number of foreigners lived in China at the time, but their sufferings have gone largely ignored. An American teacher at the school, Sven Serrano, is trying to change that, lecturing on the history of the camp to foreign students in the school & #039;s international section, showing visitors around and developing an online app about the site.
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