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China's Good War - How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
Category: History
A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history."--Foreign Affairs"A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in conceptualizations about the past and the present in contem ...Show more
China's Good War - How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
Category: Non-Fiction
Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"--a key foundation of China's rising nationalism.For most of its history, the People's Republic of China limited public discussion of the war against Japan. It was an ...Show more
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
Category: History
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and ...Show more
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
Category: Military
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. Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps th ...Show more
Forgotten Ally - China's World War II, 1937 - 1945 by Rana Mitter
Category: Non-Fiction
An Economist Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the Year "A book that has long cried out to be written." -- Observer (UK), Books of the Year 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 ...Show more
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristiccities, heir to ...Show more
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