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Clash of Empires in South China : The Allied Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941 /
As Macri shows, Hong Kong was not just a sleepy British Colonial outpost on the fringes of the empire but an essential logistical component of the war, and to fully understand broader events Hong Kong must be viewed together with southern China as a single military zone. His account of that forgotte...
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
2012.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Clash of Empires in South China : |b The Allied Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941 / |c Franco David Macri. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Collective security in Asia : the global significance of hong Kong and southern China -- Clearing the decks : preparing for war in South China, 1935 to July 1937 -- The Sino-Japanese War begins : proxy war in China, July 1937 to October 1938 -- The trap is sprung, October 1938 to March 1939 -- Stalemate, March to October 1939 -- Impasse in Kwangsi and Japan's failed interdiction strategy against Hong Kong, November 1939 to May 1940 -- Leveraging war and peace, May to December 1940 -- The triumph of collective security : Hong Kong, 1941 -- Empires derailed : the war in South China, September 1941 to January 1942 -- Collective insecurity : the demise of imperial power in Asia. | |
| 520 | |a As Macri shows, Hong Kong was not just a sleepy British Colonial outpost on the fringes of the empire but an essential logistical component of the war, and to fully understand broader events Hong Kong must be viewed together with southern China as a single military zone. His account of that forgotten fight is a pioneering work that provides new insight into the origins of the Pacific War."--Pub. desc. | ||
| 520 | |a While the most immediate concern was preserving Siberia and its vast resources from invasion, Macri identifies Hong Kong as the keystone in that proxy war - vital in sustaining Chinese resistance against Japan as it provided the logistical interface between the outside world and battles in Hunan and Kwangtung provinces; a situation that emerged because of its vital rail connection to the city of Changsha. He describes the development of Anglo-Japanese low-intensity conflict at Hong Kong; he then explains the geopolitical significance of Hong Kong and southern China for the period following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 6 | |a Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 |x Campagnes et batailles |z Chine (Sud-Est) | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 |x Campaigns |z China, Southeast. | |
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