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The Manchurian myth : nationalism, resistance and collaboration in modern China /

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 sh...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mitter, Rana, 1969- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
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Résumé: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
A powerful element in Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. This text examines the shifting alliance of key players, and traces the narrative of resistance to the occupation
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xi, 295 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index
ISBN:9780520923881
052092388X
9780585391243
0585391246
9781597347327
1597347329