The reluctant combatant : Japan and the second Sino -Japanese war / Kitamura Minoru, Lin Si-Yun ; translated by Connie Prener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minoru, Kitamura, author.

Si-Yun, Lin, author.

Contributor:

Prener, Connie, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc., 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Note; Introduction; The Second Sino-Japanese War and World History; Aggressive Wars Not Considered Crimes; Japan: Victim of Circumstance; Notes; 1 Events Leading Up to the Second Sino-Japanese War; Japan and China Join European-oriented International Order; Russo-Japanese War Spawns a New Conflict; Tension between Japan and China Heightens; Notes; 2 China and the Second Sino-Japanese War; Behind the Groundswell of Support for War against Japan; From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to Full-blown War; Notes; 3 Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War

Japan's Response to the Outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese WarInitial Peace Overtures; The War in the Context of International Politics; Notes; 4 The Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Society; Who Fought in the War?; Recruitment of Soldiers in China; Notes; 5 War Dynamics Alter Chinese Society; The Effect of Japanese Occupation; Establishment of Pro-Japan Governments; Notes; 6 From the Second Sino-Japanese War to the Pacific War; Japanese Government's Efforts to Negotiate Peace with Nationalist Government; The Road to the Pacific War; Notes; 7 The Chinese Perception of History

Chinese Views about Crimes and PunishmentConfucian Ethics Encourage Lying: The Bihui Syndrome; Notes; Afterword; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7618-6325-7

OCLC:

878112575