On April 18, 1942, civilians in Shangrao, Jiangxi risked their lives to rescue 18 downed American airmen from the Doolittle Raid. Descendants of John Hilger, pilot of Crew 14, hope to see the clouds through which her grandfather parachuted, his landing site and their hiding place. 1942 年 4 月 18 日，中国江西上饶百姓冒着生命危险救下了 “杜立特行动” 中遇险的 18 名美军空勤人员。 14 号机机长约翰・希尔格的后人希望亲眼看看爷爷跳伞穿过的云层、着陆点以及当年的藏身之处。 #China# #Jiangxi# #美军飞行员后代寻访江西#

Decades ago, a nine-year-old American boy lay beside his father, staring at a place name on the globe that his father kept pointing to: Shangrao, Jiangxi, China. His father told him, “The Chinese people there saved my life.” Decades later, on October 6, 2026, that boy has grown into a white-haired elderly man. Crossing oceans with his father’s last wish, he safely landed at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. Next, he will travel to Shangrao, Jiangxi, setting foot on the “land of rebirth” his father once spoke of. The man is Thomas Marcia. His father, James Marcia, was the navigator of Aircraft No.14 in America’s Doolittle Raid of 1942. Travelling with Thomas are descendants of Robert Bourgeois, the bombardier of Aircraft No.13 from the same raid. 几十年前，一名9岁的美国男孩趴在父亲身边，盯着地球仪上那个被父亲反复指过的地名：中国江西上饶。父亲告诉他：“我的命，是那里的中国人救的。” 几十年后，2026年10月6日，男孩已成白发苍苍的老人，他带着父亲的遗愿飞越重洋，顺利抵达上海浦东国际机场。接下来，他将前往江西上饶，踏上那片父亲口中的“重生之地”。 老人名叫托马斯·马西亚。他的父亲詹姆斯·马西亚，是1942年美国“杜立特行动”中14号机的领航员。与马西亚同行的，还有同行动中13号机投弹手罗伯特·布尔乔斯的后人。 #China# #Jiangxi# #赣出新精彩#

In Sibu, Sarawak, they don’t just burn paper money for Hungry Ghost Festival. They build a ship. This week at Fong Hwang San Ur Par Wang Kong Temple (凤凰山二霸王公庙), a 68-foot bamboo-and-paper vessel was set alight. Temple members spent weeks assembling it by hand — bamboo frame, paper skin, no metal. Then they burned it at night so the dead could sail. The meaning is local and specific. Early Chinese settlers left Fujian and Guangdong, built a life on the Rajang, and never went home. When they died, their descendants burned a junk so those souls could still make the crossing. The same fire also feeds the “good brothers” — wandering ghosts with no one left to offer them anything. After the ship goes, people rush the altar and grab the food. That’s 抢孤 — taking the blessing home. This is not a tourism board reenactment. It’s a Foochow/Hokkien custom that crossed the South China Sea and stayed. One temple in Sibu still does the full ship. That is how diaspora culture actually survives: not as a museum label, but as weeks of unpaid labour and a night of fire. Also for the overseas diaspora: 中元节在砂拉越诗巫：凤凰山二霸王公庙烧了一艘近70尺的竹纸冥船。早期南来的祖先回不了唐山，后人就扎船、烧船，送他们过海。顺便超度没人祭的好兄弟。烧完抢孤。这才是活着的民间信仰，不是宣传片。 #HungryGhostFestival# #中元节# #Sibu# #Sarawak# #诗巫# #大翻译运动#