The Wars For Asia 1911 1949

Author : S. C. M. Paine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139560870

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The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 by S. C. M. Paine Pdf

The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an overarching global war. The global war that consumed Western attentions resulted from Japan's peripheral strategy to cut foreign aid to China by attacking Pearl Harbour and Western interests throughout the Pacific in 1941. S. C. M. Paine emphasizes the fears and ambitions of Japan, China and Russia, and the pivotal decisions that set them on a collision course in the 1920s and 1930s. The resulting wars together yielded a viscerally anti-Japanese and unified Communist China, the still-angry rising power of the early twenty-first century.

Author : S. C. M. Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 1139555928

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The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 by S. C. M. Paine Pdf

"The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The long Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an overarching global war. The global war that consumed Western attentions resulted from Japan's peripheral strategy to cut foreign aid to China by attacking Pearl Harbor and Western interests throughout the Pacific on December 7-8, 1941. S.C.M. Paine emphasizes the fears and ambitions of Japan, China, and Russia, and the pivotal decisions that set them on a collision course in the 1920s and 1930s. The resulting wars - the Chinese Civil War (1911-1949), the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945), and World War II (1939-1945) - together yielded a viscerally anti-Japanese and unified Communist China, the still-angry rising power of the early twenty-first century. While these events are history in the West, they live on in Japan and especially China"--

Author : S. C. M. Paine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107011953

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The Japanese Empire by S. C. M. Paine Pdf

An accessible, analytical survey of the rise and fall of Imperial Japan in the context of its grand strategy to transform itself into a great power.

Author : Edward J. Drea
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700622344

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Japan's Imperial Army by Edward J. Drea Pdf

Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came to power and extended its influence at home and abroad to become one of the world's dominant fighting forces. This first comprehensive English-language history of the Japanese army traces its origins, evolution, and impact as an engine of the country's regional and global ambitions and as a catalyst for the militarization of the Japanese homeland from mid-nineteenth-century incursions through the end of World War II. Demonstrating his mastery of Japanese-language sources, Drea explains how the Japanese style of warfare, burnished by samurai legends, shaped the army, narrowed its options, influenced its decisions, and made it the institution that conquered most of Asia. He also tells how the army's intellectual foundations shifted as it reinvented itself to fulfill the changing imperatives of Japanese society-and how the army in turn decisively shaped the nation's political, social, cultural, and strategic course. Drea recounts how Japan devoted an inordinate amount of its treasury toward modernizing, professionalizing, and training its army-which grew larger, more powerful, and politically more influential with each passing decade. Along the way, it produced an efficient military schooling system, a well-organized active duty and reserve force, a professional officer corps that thought in terms of regional threat, and well-trained soldiers armed with appropriate weapons. Encompassing doctrine, strategy, weaponry, and civil-military relations, Drea's expert study also captures the dominant personalities who shaped the imperial army, from Yamagata Aritomo, an incisive geopolitical strategist, to Anami Korechika, who exhorted the troops to fight to the death during the final days of World War II. Summing up, Drea also suggests that an army that places itself above its nation's interests is doomed to failure.

Author : Peter Zarrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134219773

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China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 by Peter Zarrow Pdf

Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text explores the events that lead to the rise of communism and a strong central state during the early twentieth century. This book weaves narrative together with thematic chapters that pause to address themes central to China's transformation.

Author : Sarah C.M. Paine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000943689

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Imperial Rivals by Sarah C.M. Paine Pdf

Based on archival research, this is a history of the Russo-Chinese border which examines Russia's expansion into the Asian heartland during the decades of Chinese decline and the 20th-century paradox of Russia's inability to sustain political and economic sway over its domains.

Author : William Stueck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400847617

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Rethinking the Korean War by William Stueck Pdf

Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into North and South, of Germany and Europe into East and West, and of China into the mainland and Taiwan--which were to persist for at least two generations. Two of these divisions continue to the present, marking two of the most dangerous political hotspots in the post-Cold War world. The Korean War grew out of the Cold War, it exacerbated the Cold War, and its impact transcended the Cold War. William Stueck presents a fresh analysis of the Korean War's major diplomatic and strategic issues. Drawing on a cache of newly available information from archives in the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union, he provides an interpretive synthesis for scholars and general readers alike. Beginning with the decision to divide Korea in 1945, he analyzes first the origins and then the course of the conflict. He takes into account the balance between the international and internal factors that led to the war and examines the difficulty in containing and eventually ending the fighting. This discussion covers the progression toward Chinese intervention as well as factors that both prolonged the war and prevented it from expanding beyond Korea. Stueck goes on to address the impact of the war on Korean-American relations and evaluates the performance and durability of an American political culture confronting a challenge from authoritarianism abroad. Stueck's crisp yet in-depth analysis combines insightful treatment of past events with a suggestive appraisal of their significance for present and future.

Author : Dick Wilson
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945
ISBN : UCSC:32106014169202

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When Tigers Fight by Dick Wilson Pdf

Author : Diana Lary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054677

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China's Civil War by Diana Lary Pdf

A new social history of China's Civil War, 1945-9, which brought dramatic political and social revolution to China.

Author : Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538103876

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Modern China by Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine Pdf

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China’s culture, warfare, and immediate neighbors and provide a unique comparative approach to bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it.

Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674983502

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China at War by Hans van de Ven Pdf

China’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time—from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 until the close of the Korean War in 1953—across such vast territory. As Hans van de Ven explains, the greatest puzzles lie in understanding China’s simultaneous external and internal wars. Much is at stake, politically, in how this story is told. Today in its official history and public commemorations, the People’s Republic asserts Chinese unity against Japan during World War II. But this overwrites the era’s stark divisions between Communists and Nationalists, increasingly erasing the civil war from memory. Van de Ven argues that the war with Japan, the civil war, and its aftermath were in fact of a piece—a singular process of conflict and political change. Reintegrating the Communist uprising with the Sino-Japanese War, he shows how the Communists took advantage of wartime to increase their appeal, how fissures between the Nationalists and Communists affected anti-Japanese resistance, and how the fractious coalition fostered conditions for revolution. In the process, the Chinese invented an influential paradigm of war, wherein the Clausewitzian model of total war between well-defined interstate enemies gave way to murky campaigns of national liberation involving diverse domestic and outside belligerents. This history disappears when the realities of China’s mid-century conflicts are stripped from public view. China at War recovers them.

Author : Mark R. Peattie,Edward J. Drea,Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 0804792070

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The Battle for China by Mark R. Peattie,Edward J. Drea,Hans van de Ven Pdf

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 : HMH
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547840567

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Forgotten Ally by Rana Mitter Pdf

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 : Graham Peck
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015058012942

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Two Kinds of Time by Graham Peck Pdf

Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 014103145X

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China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter Pdf

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.