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China in the Anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945: Politics, Culture, and Society. Edited by David P. Barrett and Larry N. Shyu. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. ISBN 0-8024-4556-8. Notes. Glossary. Index. Pp. 240. $56.95.
This book deals with nonmilitary aspects of the Sino-Japanese War and is part of an on-going scholarly reexamination of the Guomindang era. Composed of disparate pieces of research, it lacks focus. Several of the eleven papers repeat work that first appeared in Chinese or Japanese publications and is presented in English for the first time. Given its disparate nature and high price, one cannot recommend its purchase.
Organized into four parts-political and cultural origins of the war; wartime foreign and domestic policies; wartime social and economic problems; and unresolved issues-the eleven papers broaden our knowledge of wartime China. They are: Young-tsu Wong, "The Xi'an Incident and the Coming of the War of Resistance"; De-min Tao, "Japan's War in China: Perspectives of Leading Japanese Sinologists"; Eto Shinkichi, "Japanese Maneuvers for Peace with China, 1937-1940"; Guido Samarani, "The Evolution of Fascist Italian Diplomacy during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1943"; Chen Qjanping, "Sino-British Relations and the Tibetan Crisis of 1943"; Roger B. Jeans, "Third-Party Collaborators in Wartime China: The...