Letters amid flames of war: Songs of resistance in a suitcase

Overseas Chinese hero Chen Jinlai (1901-1941) was a native of Haikou Town, Fuqing County, in China's Fujian Province. His grandson, Chen Shangxu, still preserves several family letters written during the flames of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. In the 1980s, while sorting through his grandfather's old trunk, Chen Shangxu and his father made an unexpected discovery: a letter carefully hidden inside. It was a long letter written by Chen Jinlai to his wife, He Meijin, dated May 16, 1940.

How did a young apprentice at a leather factory in Southeast Asia grow into a revolutionary devoted to his country? What burning memories were sealed within that trunk, alongside a wartime song of resistance?