Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937

Abstract

Part 1 Manchuria, Shanghai and nonresistance: background to nonresistance - Nanking and Japan, 1927-1931 military and political alignments in China, 1927-1931 challenges to nonresistance the Shanghai incident legacy of the Shanghai incident. Part 2 First pacification, then and the policy's opponents: political difficulties within the government resistance in the northeast Nanking and the boycott movement popular reaction to nonresistance Tsou T'ao-fen and the journal Sheng-huo. Part 3 New crisis in the north - Shanhaikuan, Jehol, and the Tangku truce: reaction to the Jehol crisis war at the Great Wall Huang Fu and the Tangku truce reaction to the Tangku truce. Part 4 The Tangku truce and Chinese politics: Feng Yu-hsiang and the People's anti-Japanese allied army the Japanese issue and the politics of the south Tangku and the political makeup of the Nanking regime. Part 5 Nanking's policy of accommodation, 1934: the Amo doctrine tariff and trade issues rail and postal links with Manchukuo first pacification, then renewed. Part 6 Enemy or friend?: Sino-Japanese friendship the Kwantung army opposes peace moves the Ho-Umezu and Chin-Doihara agreements the Hsin-sheng incident aftermath of the crisis the blue shirts in north China. Part 7 Until there is no hope of peace: political turmoil in Nanking Sino-Japanese economic co-operation the autonomy crisis, November-December 1935 the Peace Cabinet. Part 8 The popular tide for resistance: Tsou T'ao-fen and the National Salvation Movement Japan's hardening attitude Japanese-sponsored smuggling in north China Kuomintang politics and the issue of resistance, 1936 a harvest of incidents the Suiyuan incident. Part 9 Toward collission - Sian and beyond: the Sian incident Sian - unanswered questions Japan and the Sian incident war.