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Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945 - The Limits of Accommodation (Hardcover)
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Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945 - The Limits of Accommodation (Hardcover)
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While wartime collaboration in Europe has long been the subject of
scholarly attention, relatively little has been published about
Chinese collaboration with Japan, largely because essential source
materials were inaccessible. Recent liberalization of archival
policy in China and Taiwan has made possible this book, the first
comprehensive treatment of Sino-Japanese collaboration over the
full course of the war, at the level of both state and of society.
Collaboration on the basis of a common "greater East Asian"
interest was rare since the Japanese came as conquerors acting
primarily to further their own national interest. But all Chinese
living in the occupied areas had to decide on the degree to which
they would accommodate Japanese power--whether political, military,
or economic--in order to carry on with their lives. Whether it was
Wang Jingwei as "head of state," or Chinese capitalists in
Shanghai, or town and village elites in the rural areas, all sought
to defend their interests while making the necessary concessions to
the Japanese presence. However, even when Chinese sought a modus
operandi with the Japanese, they found that a common and equal
identity of interest did not exist. Whether expressed in terms of
Chinese willingness to collaborate, or Japanese willingness to
accept collaboration, the limits of accommodation for both were
soon reached.
The eleven essays in the volume explore the issue of collaboration
from a number of vantage points. In the political sphere, essays
range from the foreign policy of the Nationalist government,
through the establishment of Japanese client regimes in central
China, to the response of local elites in northern and central
China to Japanese invasion and occupation. Essays on economic and
cultural collaboration focus particularly on the workings of
collaboration in Shanghai, the key economic and cultural center of
occupied China.
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