The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China - Hardcover

Mitter, Rana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520221117 ISBN 13: 9780520221116

Publisher: California University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

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, traces the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows how it became part of China's political conciousness.

About the Author:

Rana Mitter is Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick.

About this edition

• Publisher: California University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0520221117
• ISBN 13: 9780520221116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308