China's Date Debate : How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matson, Emily.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026.

Summary:

China's Date Debate is an in-depth investigation of the Chinese Communist Party's remapping of China's World War II timeline from eight years (1937-1945) to fourteen years (1931-1945).

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 | History and Historiography of China's World War II in the PRC

2 | The "Date Debate"

3 | Mao and Marxist Dialectics

4 | Manchuria as a "Cradle of Conflict"

5 | Implications for Domestic and International Legitimacy

6 | World War II in Global Historical Memory

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780472905898