The Manchurian Myth
Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China
- 306 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON THE TEXT
- 1. Introduction: Crisis or Catalyst?
- 2. Reform and Reaction: Northeast China under Zhang Xueliang, 1928–1931
- 3. Staying On: Co-optation of the Northeastern Provincial Elites, 1931–1932
- 4. Shrapnel and Social Spending: Local Elite Collaboration in Manchukuo, 1931–1933
- 5. Selling Salvation: The Campaigns of the Northeast National Salvation Society, 1931–1933
- 6. Know Your Enemy: The Creation of a Discourse of Nationalist Resistance, 1931–1933
- 7. Frontline Choices: The Resistance Fighters, Nationalism, and Locality, 1931–1932
- 8. Epilogue: Manchuria in Memory and Myth
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX