The Manchurian MythNationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China

Nationalism, resistance and collaboration in modern China

Bibliographic Data

ID19990378
AuthorsRana Mitter (0000-0003-4190-6629, corresponding author)
Year2000
Pages295
Publication date2000-02-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Manchurian myth (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520221116.001.0001
OpenAlexW2964161056
Open LibraryOL22373663M
ISBN9780520221116
LanguageEN
Citations received9

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

Biology · China · Political science · Resistance (ecology) · Chinese history and philosophy · Ecology · Law · 1931-1945 · General · History · Manchuria · Nationalism