Collaboration : Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China / Timothy Brook.
2007
DS777.53 .B76 2007eb
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Title
Collaboration : Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China / Timothy Brook.
Author
Brook, Timothy, author.
ISBN
9780674270596
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (302 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674270596 doi
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DS777.53 .B76 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.531630951
Summary
Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Japan's attack on Shanghai in August 1937 led to the occupation of the Yangtze Delta. In spite of the legendary violence of the assault, Chinese elites throughout the delta came forward to work with the conquerors. Using archives on both sides of the conflict, Brook reconstructs the process of collaboration from Shanghai to Nanking. Collaboration proved to be politically unstable and morally awkward for both sides, provoking tensions that undercut the authority of the occupation state and undermined Japan's long-term prospects for occupying China. This groundbreaking study mirrors the more familiar stories of European collaboration with the Nazis, showing how the Chinese were deeply troubled by their unavoidable cooperation with the occupiers. The comparison provides a point of entry into the difficult but necessary discussion about this long-ignored aspect of the war in the Pacific.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in the Text
1 Considering Collaboration
2 The Plan
3 Appearances / Jiading
4 Costs / Zhenjiang
5 Complicities / Nanjing
6 Rivalries / Shanghai
7 Resistance / Chongming
8 Assembling the Occupation State
Conclusion: Four Ways Truth Disappears with History
Notes
Sources
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in the Text
1 Considering Collaboration
2 The Plan
3 Appearances / Jiading
4 Costs / Zhenjiang
5 Complicities / Nanjing
6 Rivalries / Shanghai
7 Resistance / Chongming
8 Assembling the Occupation State
Conclusion: Four Ways Truth Disappears with History
Notes
Sources
Index