THE WARS FOR ASIA, 1911-1949 by S. C. M. Paine ( 9781107697478 )

Item Details

Title:

THE WARS FOR ASIA, 1911-1949

By:

S. C. M. Paine

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£21.99

Our price:

£19.79

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£2.20

ISBN 10:

1107697476

ISBN 13:

9781107697478

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 November, 2013

Pages:

504

Description:

This book shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War misrepresents their connections and causes.

Synopsis:

The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an overarching global war. The global war that consumed Western attentions resulted from Japan's peripheral strategy to cut foreign aid to China by attacking Pearl Harbour and Western interests throughout the Pacific in 1941. S. C. M. Paine emphasizes the fears and ambitions of Japan, China and Russia, and the pivotal decisions that set them on a collision course in the 1920s and 1930s. The resulting wars together yielded a viscerally anti-Japanese and unified Communist China, the still-angry rising power of the early twenty-first century.

Illustrations:

6 maps

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

IMPERIAL RIVALS (HB)

IMPERIAL RIVALS (PB)

NATION BUILDING, STATE BUILDING, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (HB)