North China at War The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937-1945

Collected together the papers provide an excellent example of the range of analyses demanded by the complexity of the modern Chinese historical experience. War In History This would be an effective introductory reading for graduate classes. The China Journal [T]his very useful and enlightening volume, which, helpfully focused by the methodological reflections in its introduction and conclusion, enables a greater insight and understanding of the complex social diversity at work in the revolutionary process. It was not without difficulties and setbacks that this process finally led to the defeat of the Japanese and the ultimate victory of the CCP. It is all the more useful to turn back to these issues, because since the 1980s a plethora of CCP documents, personal memoirs, and works by Chinese historians on the Sino-Japanese war period have been published that tend to obscure them, or even conceal them completely. China Perspectives