The Tragedy of Wuhan, 1938

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ID3635271
AuthorsStephen R Mackinnon (Arizona State University, corresponding author), Stephen Mackinnon (0000-0002-6289-4295)
Year1996
Volume30
Issue4
Pages931-943
Publication date1996-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0026749x0001684x
OpenAlexW2100552565
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

There is a striking disconnect between the imaginative range of interests which preoccupy historians of World Wars I and II in Europe and North America and the much more narrow political concerns of China historians working on the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45. Since Jacoby and White'sThunder Out of China(1946) and Chalmers Johnson'sPeasant Nationalism(1966), Western historiography on the Sino-Japanese War has focused not on the war itself but on the continuing political struggle for supremacy between the Communists and Nationalists. The war is seen as the key to the eventual triumph of the Communists over Chiang Kaishek's Nationalists by 1949. Other issues like the military history of the war itself or its long-term impact on Chinese society and culture have received scant attention

Ancient history · China · Economic history · Geography · Historiography · Military history · Nationalism · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Thunder · Tragedy (event · World War II · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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