《Vicissitudes of ledaoyuan》

The history of ledaoyuan bears the history of Weixian County, records the spiritual symbols of internationalism and pacifism, and is of great significance to the development of Weifang. In order to further expand the popularity and influence of ledaoyuan's Weixian concentration camp, in 2019, Comrade Ji Shuchun, an expert consultant of the promotion project of ledaoyuan's Weixian concentration camp Museum, proposed that Weifang Weixian concentration camp research association should compile a basic book to systematically and graphically introduce the development history of ledaoyuan and the experience of Weixian concentration camp, It is an intuitive understanding of this period of history for domestic and foreign literary and historical lovers and the broad masses of the people. At the same time, it is also a reference book for the staff of the ledaoyuan Weixian concentration camp museum to learn.

Once the proposal was put forward, it was unanimously agreed by Weixian concentration camp Research Association of Weifang City. The Propaganda Department of the Weifang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Weifang Municipal Bureau of culture and tourism attached great importance to the compilation of the book, and immediately organized the Weixian concentration camp Research Association and the competent personnel of the museum related specialties to sort out and edit the development history of the ledaoyuan and the Weixian overseas Chinese concentration camp, collect pictures and read the content. Among them, Comrade Ji Shuchun attached great importance to the compilation of the vicissitudes of music, personally formulated the compilation ideas and organized the compilers to carry out their work, which ensured the orderly progress of the compilation work.

Taking time as the main line, the book "the vicissitudes of ledaoyuan" is divided into four sections: the ledaoyuan before 1942, the ledaoyuan that became the Western expatriate concentration camp, the red memory of the ledaoyuan, and the ledaoyuan in the new era. The education, medical care, preaching and other activities of the ledaoyuan, the establishment of the concentration camp in Weixian County, the detainees, the life and struggle of overseas Chinese, the relief of overseas Chinese by the people of Weixian County, and the liberation of the concentration camp,   "Civilization is colorful because of exchanges, and civilization is enriched because of mutual learning".

In the process of compiling the book, Weifang Weixian concentration camp Research Association and ledaoyuan Weixian concentration camp Museum upgrading project expert advisory group presided over and organized a large number of research and business academic exchange activities related to Weixian concentration camp. Led by Li Shiqing, supervisor of Weixian concentration camp Research Association of Weifang City and deputy director of ledaoyuan Weixian concentration camp Museum, Ji Shuchun, expert consultant of the upgrading project of ledaoyuan Weixian concentration camp Museum, Experts and scholars such as sun Jingming, Liu Jiafeng, Ma Daoyuan and Cui Shutian, directors of Weixian concentration camp Research Association of Weifang City, Lu Junfeng, director of Weixian concentration camp fellowship of ledaoyuan, and Sui Shude, director of translation center of Weifang Foreign Affairs Office, reviewed the manuscript of the book and paid a lot of effort. When the book was about to be published, Chu Baojie, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Weifang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and director of the Propaganda Department, made a preface to Weifang historical and cultural atlas. In addition, according to the requirements of the Cultural Relics Publishing House, Mr. Sun Jingming issued review opinions on the manuscript.

On May 18, 2022, on the day of the "International Museum Day" promotion activities of ledaoyuan Weixian concentration camp Museum, Li Shiqing, supervisor of Weixian concentration camp Research Association of Weifang City and deputy director of ledaoyuan Weixian concentration camp Museum, officially announced the release of the vicissitudes of Ledao.