China at War
Regions of China, 1937-45
Published on 28. August 2007
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-8047-5509-2 (ISBN)
Description
In response to the leaders of China and Japan attacking each other for the way they deal with history, scholars from Japan, China, and the West held a conference in 2002, under the auspices of the Harvard Asia Center, to examine the Japanese invasion and occupation of China. The essays collected in this timely volume are the product of these scholars' research on this historical problem. Delving deeply into the nature of the occupation, the authors examine local variations in the role of the Japanese in local politics, economics, and society, in such diverse localities as Manchuria, Mongolia, Shanghai, Jiangxi, and Yunnan, where the wartime experience has been little studied.
Contributors include: Timothy Brook, John Dower, Kubo Toru, Chang Jui-te, Shao Minghuang, Tsukase Susumu, Xie Xueshi, Lu Minghui, Odoric Y. K. Wou, Ju Zhifen, Zhuang Jianping, Wei Hongyun, Frederic Wakeman, Jr., and Peter Merker.
Contributors include: Timothy Brook, John Dower, Kubo Toru, Chang Jui-te, Shao Minghuang, Tsukase Susumu, Xie Xueshi, Lu Minghui, Odoric Y. K. Wou, Ju Zhifen, Zhuang Jianping, Wei Hongyun, Frederic Wakeman, Jr., and Peter Merker.
Reviews / Votes
"[China at War is the result of an international conference of scholars whose papers center on the main theme: the regional experiences of the war in China. By bringing together those whose approaches to the war are varied, a more nuanced picture of the Chinese experience in the war is made possible. . . [A] new and valuable perspective to Chinese studies."-Katherine Reist, China Review International "China at War is a valuable and welcome addition to the steadily expanding scholarship on one of the most ignored events in modern Asian studies: the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, known in China as the War of Resistance against Japan. Based on a 2002 conference organized by the Harvard Asia Center, the volume includes excellent articles by a group of leading scholars in the field." -Chang-Tai Hung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "English language publications alone include volumes on China's conduct of the war of resistence, the management of Japan's waratime empire, the Rape of Nanjing and other Japanese atrocities, Japanese labor conscription in wartime Asia, and the social, cultural, and psychological impact of the war on the Chinese people. China at war, a new collection of essays edited by Stephen MacKinnon, Diana Leary, and Ezra Vogel, adds to this body of work and contributes a useful regional and local perspective to an understanding of this cataclysmic conflict." -Journal of Japanese StudiesMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Cloth
Illustrations
16 tables, 1 figure, 6 maps
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-5509-2 (9780804755092)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Diana Lary is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. She is coauthor of Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria (2000) and The Scars of War: The Impact of War on Chinese Society (2001). Stephen R. MacKinnon is Professor of History at Arizona State University. His recent publications include China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930's and 1940's (1990) and The Scars of War. Ezra F. Vogel is Henry Ford II Research Professor at Harvard University. His publications include Is Japan Still Number One? (2000) and The Four Little Dragons : The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (1993)
Content
Contents Illustrations ix Preface: Regional Patterns in the China War, 1937-1945 Ezra F. Vogel xi Abbreviations xix Introduction: The Context of the War Diana Lary 1 Part One. State Formation: Japan and Guomindang Efforts at Nationwide Coordination 1. The Structures and Ideologies of Conquest John W. Dower 17 2. Occupation State Building Timothy Brook 22 3. The Koa Institute Kubo Toru 44 4. Chiang Kai-shek's Coordination by Personal Directives Chang Jui-te 65 Part Two. The Early Occupied Area 5. Taiwan in Wartime Shao Minghuang 91 6. The Penetration of Manzhouguo Rule in Manchuria Tsukase Susumu 110 7. The Organization and Grassroots Structure of the Manzhouguo Regime Xie Xueshi 134 8. The Inner Mongolian "United Autonomous Government" Lu Minghui 148 Part Three. The Later Occupied Areas 9. Food Shortage and Japanese Grain Extraction in Henan Odoric Y. K. Wou 175 10. Labor Conscription in North China: 1941-1945 Ju Zhifen 207 11. Japan's Exploitative Labor System in Qingdao: 1933-1945 Zhuang Jianping 227 Part Four. Unoccupied or Partially Occupied Areas 12. Commerce in Wartime: The Jinjiluyu Base Area Wei Hongyun 247 13. Occupied Shanghai: The Struggle Between Chinese and Western Medicine Frederic Wakeman, Jr. 265 14. The Guomindang Regions of Jiangxi Peter Merker 288 15. One Province's Experience of War: Guangxi, 1937-1945 Diana Lary 314 Conclusion: Wartime China Stephen R. MacKinnon 335 Conference Participants 355 Character List 361 Contributors 363 Index 000