China at War: Regions of China, 1937-1945 - Hardcover

by Stephen R. MacKinnon (Editor), Diana Lary (Editor), Ezra F. Vogel (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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)