China's Bitter Victory: War with Japan, 1937-45"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of battles and conferences, the book portrays the significant impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs, and science. For within the overriding struggle for national survival, the competition for political goals continued. China ultimately triumphed, but at a price of between 15 and 20 million lives and vast destruction of property and resources. And China's bitter victory brought new trials for the Chinese people in the form of civil war and revolution. This book tells the story of China during a crucial period pregnant with consequences not only for China but also for Asia and the world as well. Addressed to students, scholars, and general readers, the book aims to fill a gap in the existing literature on modern Chinese history and on World War II. |
Contents
| 1909 | |
| 1926 | |
Chinas Wartime State | 1957 |
Contending Political Forces during the War of Resistance | 1927 |
The Chinese Communist Movement | 1921 |
The CCPs Foreign Policy of Opposition 19371945 | |
The Military Dimension 19371941 | |
The Chinese War Economy | |
Science in Wartime China | |
Literature and Art of the War Period | |
Wartime Judicial Reform in China | |
Hsia Taotai and Wendy Zeldin | |
Chronology | |
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Allied American anti-Japanese areas attack battle Border Region Burma campaign Central CFJP Ch'en Chiang Kai-shek Chinese Army Chinese Communist Chou En-lai Chung-kuo Chungking combat command cooperation courts defeat defense democratic Dorn East economic Eighth Route Army enemy established Feng fighting forces foreign policy Fourth Army guerrilla HHJP Hsiao hui-chan hui-i Ibid industrial Japan Japanese judicial k'ang-chan K'ang-Jih k'o-hsueh KJCS Kuomintang Kwangsi leaders leadership literature major Manchuria Mao Tse-tung military modern Moscow movement Nanking Nationalist China Nationalist government North China November Operation Ichigo organs party Peking People's percent period political postwar prewar production provinces puppet regime resistance Second Archive Shanghai Shen-Kan-Ning shih Sino-Japanese soldiers Soviet Union Stilwell strategic Szechwan Taipei united front University Press victory Wang Ching-wei Wang Ming warlord wartime Washington wei-yuan-hui Wen-shih tzu-liao Western Wuhan Yangtze Yenan Yuan