“To Serve Revenge for the Dead”
Chinese Communist Responses to Japanese War Crimes in the PRC Foreign Ministry Archive, 1949–1956
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19139451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Cathcart (0000-0001-5049-1256, corresponding author), Patricia Nash (0000-0002-2571-788X, Washington University in St. Louis) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 200 |
| Pages | 1053-1069 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The China Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-4439 • E-ISSN: 1468-2648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305741009990622 |
| OpenAlex | W2089893920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
Using newly available documents from the PRC Foreign Ministry Archive, this article traces the evolving legacies of the War of Resistance in the first seven years of the People's Republic. Analysis is offered of PRC campaigns against Japanese bacteriological war crimes, criticisms of American dealings with Japanese war criminals, and the 1956 trial of Japanese at Shenyang. Throughout, behind-the-scenes tensions with the Soviet Union and internal bureaucratic struggles over the Japanese legacy regarding these matters are revealed. The article thereby aims to shed light on how the War of Resistance affected post-war China's foreign relations, demonstrating how the young Republic advantageously used wartime legacies as diplomatic tools in relations with the superpowers and within the orchestrated clangour of domestic propaganda campaigns
Bureaucracy · China · Christian ministry · Communism · Economic history · International law · Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Soviet union · Spanish Civil War · War crime · Chinese history and philosophy · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |