Author: Håkan Gustavsson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781555361
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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"[This] is a comprehensive history of this often overlooked conflict. Håkan Gustavsson explores the impact of the 1937 Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which provided Soviet armament to the Kuomintang government; the strained relationship between the Chinese and the Soviets; the introduction of the Flying Tigers - the 1st American Volunteer Group - commanded by the renowned Claire Chennault in 1941; and the eventual retreat and defeat of the Japanese following their last offensive in 1945 and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."--Jacket.
Author: Hakan Gustavsson
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Benjamin Lai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781804515747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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China's Air War with Japan: Sino-Japanese Air Battles, 1937-1945, Volume 1 examines the conflict between the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) and the Japanese Air Service (Japanese Army Air Force and Japanese Naval Air Force) in the Chinese theater during the Second World War. Relative to their opponent, the ROCAF was backwardly equipped, poorly trained, and passive at the beginning of the war; by 1940, when Japanese Zero fighters were put into service, the ROCAF was basically expelled from the air. With the assistance of the Allies, especially the United States, the ROCAF gradually regained its strength from 1943 onwards. By the war's end, the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW) and ROCAF had gained control of the airspace on the Chinese battlefield. This book describes the Sino-Japanese war in the air during the Second World War, primarily from the Chinese side, though with examination of sources from both sides.
Author: Dick Wilson
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: Puyu Hu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: China (Republic : 1949- ). Guo fang bu. Shi zheng ju
Publisher: Taipei : Chung Wu Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Author: Mark R. Peattie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804792073
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This project offers the first English-language general history of military operations during the Sino-Japanese war based on Japanese, Chinese, and Western sources.
Author: Rana Mitter
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780141031453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves.
Author: Rana Mitter
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 054784056X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
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A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: “Superb” (The New York Times Book Review). In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in a devastating struggle for its very survival. In this book, prize-winning historian Rana Mitter unfurls China’s drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue as never before. Based on groundbreaking research, this gripping narrative focuses on a handful of unforgettable characters, including Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, and Chiang’s American chief of staff, “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell—and also recounts the sacrifice and resilience of everyday Chinese people through the horrors of bombings, famines, and the infamous Rape of Nanking. More than any other twentieth-century event, World War II was crucial in shaping China’s worldview, making Forgotten Ally both a definitive work of history and an indispensable guide to today’s China and its relationship with the West.
Author: Chang-tai Hung
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520354869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms—especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers—to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution.
