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Reluctant Combatant Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War

Minoru Kitamura Si-Yun Lin
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780761863243
Publisert
2014-04-15
Utgiver
Vendor
University Press Of America
Vekt
218 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
10 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
U, P, 05, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
140

Forfatter
Minoru Kitamura
Si-Yun Lin

Om bidragsyterne

Kitamura Minoru graduated Kyoto University in 1973. He is now a professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto where he teaches Modern Chinese History. Lin Si-Yun graduated Nanjing University in 1985. He has authored several books in Japanese on the cultural differences between Japan and China.

Reluctant Combatant Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War

Minoru Kitamura Si-Yun Lin
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Minoru Kitamura Si-Yun Lin
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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The mainstream view on the Second Sino-Japanese War is that Imperial Japan was bent on destroying China, and the rest of Asia, for purely selfish reasons. However, careful analysis of the global situation, particularly of the social and political development of China and the attitudes of the Chinese leadership, indicates that the Chinese were not the innocent victims of ‘aggression’ as is currently claimed.

- Terumasa Nakanishi, Kyoto University,

Authors Kitamura and Lin recount the circumstances that ultimately lead to the Second Sino-Japanese War, demonstrating that the war was neither a Japanese ‘brutal war of aggression’ or that China was a ‘helpless’ victim.

- Haruo Tohmatsu, Tamagawa University, Tokyo,

The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This book identifies several key aspects of the political context surrounding the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the extreme fragility of the national united front against Japan, the view of Soviet Russia as Japan’s principal potential adversary, and the potential threat to Japanese national defense a protracted war with China would pose. This book reveals that the Communists, the National Government, local gentry, peasants, and bandits occasionally collaborated with the enemy—Japanese troops—to expand their spheres of influence.
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PREFACE INTRODUCTION: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND WAR I. The Second Sino-Japanese War and world history II. Aggressive wars not considered crimes III. Japan: victim of circumstance CHAPTER 1: EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR I. Japan and China join European-oriented international order II. Russo-Japanese War spawns a new conflict III. Tension between Japan and China heightens CHAPTER 2: CHINA AND THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR I. Behind the groundswell of support for war against Japan II. From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to full-blown war CHAPTER 3: JAPAN AND THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR I. Japan’s response to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War II. Initial peace overtures III. The war in the context of international politics CHAPTER 4: THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR AND CHINESE SOCIETY I. Who fought in the war? II. Recruitment of soldiers in China CHAPTER 5: WAR DYNAMICS ALTER CHINESE SOCIETY I. The effect of Japanese occupation II. Establishment of pro-Japan governments CHAPTER 6: FROM THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR TO THE PACIFIC WAR I. Japanese government’s efforts to negotiate peace with Nationalist government II. The road to the Pacific War CHAPTER 7: THE CHINESE PERCEPTION OF HISTORY I. Chinese views about crimes and punishment II. Confucian ethics encourage lying: the bihui syndrome AFTERWORD SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The mainstream view on the Second Sino-Japanese War is that Imperial Japan was bent on destroying China, and the rest of Asia, for purely selfish reasons. However, careful analysis of the global situation, particularly of the social and political development of China and the attitudes of the Chinese leadership, indicates that the Chinese were not the innocent victims of ‘aggression’ as is currently claimed.

- Terumasa Nakanishi, Kyoto University,

Authors Kitamura and Lin recount the circumstances that ultimately lead to the Second Sino-Japanese War, demonstrating that the war was neither a Japanese ‘brutal war of aggression’ or that China was a ‘helpless’ victim.

- Haruo Tohmatsu, Tamagawa University, Tokyo,

The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This book identifies several key aspects of the political context surrounding the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the extreme fragility of the national united front against Japan, the view of Soviet Russia as Japan’s principal potential adversary, and the potential threat to Japanese national defense a protracted war with China would pose. This book reveals that the Communists, the National Government, local gentry, peasants, and bandits occasionally collaborated with the enemy—Japanese troops—to expand their spheres of influence.
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PREFACE INTRODUCTION: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND WAR I. The Second Sino-Japanese War and world history II. Aggressive wars not considered crimes III. Japan: victim of circumstance CHAPTER 1: EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR I. Japan and China join European-oriented international order II. Russo-Japanese War spawns a new conflict III. Tension between Japan and China heightens CHAPTER 2: CHINA AND THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR I. Behind the groundswell of support for war against Japan II. From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to full-blown war CHAPTER 3: JAPAN AND THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR I. Japan’s response to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War II. Initial peace overtures III. The war in the context of international politics CHAPTER 4: THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR AND CHINESE SOCIETY I. Who fought in the war? II. Recruitment of soldiers in China CHAPTER 5: WAR DYNAMICS ALTER CHINESE SOCIETY I. The effect of Japanese occupation II. Establishment of pro-Japan governments CHAPTER 6: FROM THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR TO THE PACIFIC WAR I. Japanese government’s efforts to negotiate peace with Nationalist government II. The road to the Pacific War CHAPTER 7: THE CHINESE PERCEPTION OF HISTORY I. Chinese views about crimes and punishment II. Confucian ethics encourage lying: the bihui syndrome AFTERWORD SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780761863243
Publisert
2014-04-15
Utgiver
Vendor
University Press Of America
Vekt
218 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
10 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
U, P, 05, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
140

Forfatter
Minoru Kitamura
Si-Yun Lin

Om bidragsyterne

Kitamura Minoru graduated Kyoto University in 1973. He is now a professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto where he teaches Modern Chinese History. Lin Si-Yun graduated Nanjing University in 1985. He has authored several books in Japanese on the cultural differences between Japan and China.

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