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  • The East Asian Dimension of the First World War

    Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919

    by Eugene Chiu, Gerhard Krebs, Yuji Kubota, Akira Kudo, Sepp Linhart, Eiichi Morohashi, Mahon Murphy, Sochi Naraoka, Sawako Ogawa, Yasuteru Ono, Atsushi Otsuru, Yuichiro Shimizu, Jun Suzuki, Lin-chun Wu, Shin'ichi Yamamuro, Yan Zhang ...
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    Which role did East Asia play in the First World War? How did East Asian commentators see and interpret the total(izing) war in Europe and elsewhere? Which lessons did they draw from this experience for their own societies? How did economic networks shift? Which influence did the war have on East Asian visions of world order? This volume aims to introduce new scholarship, in many cases by hitherto ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Forgotten Ally

    China's World War II, 1937–1945

    by Rana Mitter ...
    A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: "Superb" ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in ... Read more

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  • The Pacific War, 1931-1945

    A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II

    by Saburo Ienaga ...
    A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Restless Empire

    China and the World Since 1750

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the contradictions of its ... Read more

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  • Chinese Whispers

    Why Everything You've Heard About China is Wrong

    by Ben Chu ...
    'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions.THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON EARTH...so why are the younger generation derided as spoiled and lazy?CHINESE PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICAL FREEDOM...so why is the country's internet exploding with anti-regime dissent?CHINA WILL ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • The Japanese Empire

    Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–5) and the Russo ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

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  • Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918–1922

    'A Great Disobedience Against the People'

    by Paul E. Dunscomb ...
    Series series Studies of Modern Japan
    The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new "world situation" left in the wake of the First World War. From elite politicians and military professionals, to public intellectuals and the families of servicemen in small garrison towns, the intervention was perceived as a test of how Japan ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Red China

    Mao Crushes Chiang's Kuomintang, 1949

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era ... Read more

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  • Japan at War in the Pacific

    The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    "A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan…" —New York Journal of BooksJapan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story of Japan's transformation from a Samurai-led feudal society to a modern military-industrial empire in the space of a few decades—and the many wars it fought along the way. These culminated in an attempt by Japan's military leaders to create an Asia ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

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  • The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Adam Tooze ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Second World War
    The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the ... Read more

    $53.29 USD