Kitamura Minoru, Lin Si-Yun

The Reluctant Combatant (eBook, PDF)

Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761882824
• Artikelnr.: 74829804

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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