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25. Ruan Jiaxin, “Kangzhan shiqi zhuHua Meijun bushu ji zuozhan gaikuang” [“The Situation of the Deployment and Warmaking of US Troops Stationed in China during the War of Resistance”], KangRi zhanzheng yanjiu 3 (2007), 27. Zhao Rukun, “Erzhan jieshu qianhou Meiguo duiHua zhengce wenti zai shentao” [“A Reexamination of American Policy toward China before and after the Conclusion of World War II”], Guangxi shifan daxue uebao: zhexue shehui kexue ban 43:6 (December 2007), 104.
26. Hongping Annie Nie, “Gaming, Nationalism, and Patriotic Education: Chinese Online Games Based on the Resistance War against Japan (1937–1945),” Journal of Contemporary China 22:18 (May 2013).
27. Rana Mitter, “China’s ‘Good War’: Voices, Locations, and Generations in the Interpretation of the War of Resistance to Japan,” in Sheila Jager and Rana Mitter, eds., Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post–Cold War in Asia (Cambridge, MA, 2007).
28. “Cui Yongyuan tan Wode Kangzhan” [“Cui Yongyuan Talks about ‘My War of Resistance’”], Nanfang Zhoumo , October 7, 2010.
29. Hollington K. Tong, China after Seven Years of War (London, 1945).
Further Reading
Although China’s war with Japan has generated far less scholarship in English than the European and Pacific fronts of the Second World War, there is still a substantial body of work for those who wish to go further. This short guide to further reading is not intended to be comprehensive. Rather, it provides pointers to useful books and articles in the English-language scholarship that in turn could stimulate further reading and research.
OVERALL HISTORY OF THE WAR
This book has taken a new approach by examining China’s war with Japan as one continuous narrative combining the viewpoints of the Nationalists, the Communists, and the collaborators. However, there have of course been previous very important accounts that bring together various of these elements, usually through combining edited essays by different authors. The volume by Lloyd Eastman et al., The Nationalist Era in China, 1927–1949 (Cambridge, 1991), has two excellent overview essays, by Lloyd Eastman on the Nationalists and Lyman van Slyke on the Communists, that cover the wartime period. (These essays are also to be found in volume 13 of The Cambridge History of China .) James Hsiung and Steven Levine’s volume China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945 (Armonk, NY, 1992), contains superb essays by leading scholars on topics including China’s wartime diplomacy, its economy, and changes in its political system. Chinese politics in the period leading up to the war is dealt with in Parks M. Coble Jr., Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931–1937 (Cambridge, MA, 1991). On the fate of Hong Kong, see Philip Snow, The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation (New Haven, 2004); for a daring episode within that story, Tim Luard, Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941 (Hong Kong, 2012). There is a wealth of literature on the Japanese side of the war in China and in the Pacific more broadly. Akira Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (London, 1987), is a compelling analysis of the key factors that led to Japan’s decision for war, as well as giving a detailed account of the scholarly debates underlying this issue.
BIOGRAPHIES
For many years there were few biographies of Chiang Kai-shek. Access to new sources, in particular the Chiang Kai-shek diaries at the Hoover Institution, has enriched the fine biography by Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Cambridge, MA, 2007), which gives comprehensive coverage of Chiang’s whole life, including his period on Taiwan. An earlier biography by Jonathan Fenby, Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost (London, 2003), broke new ground in
25. Ruan Jiaxin, “Kangzhan shiqi zhuHua Meijun bushu ji zuozhan gaikuang” [“The Situation of the Deployment and Warmaking of US Troops Stationed in China during the War of Resistance”], KangRi zhanzheng yanjiu 3 (2007), 27. Zhao Rukun, “Erzhan jieshu qianhou Meiguo duiHua zhengce wenti zai shentao” [“A Reexamination of American Policy toward China before and after the Conclusion of World War II”], Guangxi shifan daxue uebao: zhexue shehui kexue ban 43:6 (December 2007), 104.
26. Hongping Annie Nie, “Gaming, Nationalism, and Patriotic Education: Chinese Online Games Based on the Resistance War against Japan (1937–1945),” Journal of Contemporary China 22:18 (May 2013).
27. Rana Mitter, “China’s ‘Good War’: Voices, Locations, and Generations in the Interpretation of the War of Resistance to Japan,” in Sheila Jager and Rana Mitter, eds., Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post–Cold War in Asia (Cambridge, MA, 2007).
28. “Cui Yongyuan tan Wode Kangzhan” [“Cui Yongyuan Talks about ‘My War of Resistance’”], Nanfang Zhoumo , October 7, 2010.
29. Hollington K. Tong, China after Seven Years of War (London, 1945).
Further Reading
Although China’s war with Japan has generated far less scholarship in English than the European and Pacific fronts of the Second World War, there is still a substantial body of work for those who wish to go further. This short guide to further reading is not intended to be comprehensive. Rather, it provides pointers to useful books and articles in the English-language scholarship that in turn could stimulate further reading and research.
OVERALL HISTORY OF THE WAR
This book has taken a new approach by examining China’s war with Japan as one continuous narrative combining the viewpoints of the Nationalists, the Communists, and the collaborators. However, there have of course been previous very important accounts that bring together various of these elements, usually through combining edited essays by different authors. The volume by Lloyd Eastman et al., The Nationalist Era in China, 1927–1949 (Cambridge, 1991), has two excellent overview essays, by Lloyd Eastman on the Nationalists and Lyman van Slyke on the Communists, that cover the wartime period. (These essays are also to be found in volume 13 of The Cambridge History of China .) James Hsiung and Steven Levine’s volume China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945 (Armonk, NY, 1992), contains superb essays by leading scholars on topics including China’s wartime diplomacy, its economy, and changes in its political system. Chinese politics in the period leading up to the war is dealt with in Parks M. Coble Jr., Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931–1937 (Cambridge, MA, 1991). On the fate of Hong Kong, see Philip Snow, The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation (New Haven, 2004); for a daring episode within that story, Tim Luard, Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941 (Hong Kong, 2012). There is a wealth of literature on the Japanese side of the war in China and in the Pacific more broadly. Akira Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (London, 1987), is a compelling analysis of the key factors that led to Japan’s decision for war, as well as giving a detailed account of the scholarly debates underlying this issue.
BIOGRAPHIES
For many years there were few biographies of Chiang Kai-shek. Access to new sources, in particular the Chiang Kai-shek diaries at the Hoover Institution, has enriched the fine biography by Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Cambridge, MA, 2007), which gives comprehensive coverage of Chiang’s whole life, including his period on Taiwan. An earlier biography by Jonathan Fenby, Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost (London, 2003), broke new ground in
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