The Manchurian myth : nationalism, resistance and collaboration in modern China /

The Manchurian myth : nationalism, resistance and collaboration in modern China /

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Author / Creator:Mitter, Rana, 1969- author.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
©2000
Description:1 online resource (xi, 295 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Nationalism -- China -- Manchuria.
Nationalism.
Manchuria (China) -- History -- 1931-1945.
China -- Manchuria.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11115125
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ISBN:9780520923881
052092388X
9780585391243
0585391246
9781597347327
1597347329
9780520221116
0520221117
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index
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Summary: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
A powerful element in Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. This text examines the shifting alliance of key players, and traces the narrative of resistance to the occupation
Other form:Print version: Mitter, Rana, 1969- Manchurian myth. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520221117
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: crisis or catalyst?
  • Reform and reaction: Northeast China under Zhang Xueliang, 1928-1931
  • Staying on: co-optation of the northeastern provincial elites, 1931-1932
  • Shrapnel and social spending: local elite collaboration in Manchuko, 1931-1933
  • Selling salvation: the campaigns of the Northeast National Salvation Society, 1931-1933
  • Know your enemy: the creation of a discourse of nationalist resistance, 1931-1933
  • Frontline choices: the reisistance fighters, nationalism and locality, 1931-1932
  • Epilogue: Manchuria in memory and myth

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