1930s
A01=Rana Mitter
Author_Rana Mitter
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china
chinese history
chinese nationalism
collaborators
colonialism
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exile
government
history
imperialism
japan
japanese occupation
kwantung army
league of nations
ma zhanshan
manchukuo
manchuria
may thirtieth incident
military
nanjing
nation
nationalism
nonfiction
occupied zone
political history
politics
postwar
puppet government
rebellion
resistance
resistance fighters
salvation society
tanggu truce
versailles conference
violence
war
zhang xueliang
Product details
- ISBN 9780520221116
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows how it became part of China's political consciousness, enduring even today. After Japan's September 1931 military strike leading to a takeover of the Northeast, the Chinese responded in three major ways: collaboration, resistance in exile, and resistance on the ground. What motives prompted some Chinese to collaborate, others to resist? What were conditions like under the Japanese? Through careful reading of Chinese and Japanese sources, particularly local government records, newspapers, and journals published both inside and outside occupied Manchuria, Mitter sheds important new light on these questions.
Rana Mitter is Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick.
