The Sino-Japanese War
Duration: 43 minutes
First broadcast: Thursday 08 May 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042ldyq
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45. After several years of rising tension, and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, full-scale war between Japan and China broke out in the summer of 1937. The Japanese captured many major Chinese ports and cities, but met with fierce resistance, despite internal political divisions on the Chinese side. When the Americans entered the war following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese found themselves fighting on several fronts simultaneously, and finally capitulated in August 1945. This notoriously brutal conflict left millions dead and had far-reaching consequences for international relations in Asia.
With:
- Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford
- Barak Kushner, Senior Lecturer in Japanese History at the University of Cambridge
- Tehyun Ma, Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Exeter
Producer: Thomas Morris.
READING LIST:
- David P. Barrett, Larry N. Shyu (eds.), Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945: The Limits of Accommodation (Stanford University Press, 2001)
- Timothy Brook, Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China (Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Edward Drea, Mark Peattie, Hans van de Ven (eds.), The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2010)
- David Earhart, Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media (ME Sharpe, 2007)
- Joshua Fogel (ed.), The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography (University of California Press, 2000)
- Akira Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (Routledge, 1987)
- Barak Kushner, The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda (University of Hawaii Press, 2007)
- Stephen R. MacKinnon, Diana Lary, Ezra F. Vogel (eds.), China at War: Regions of China, 1937-45 (Stanford University Press, 2007)
- Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival (Penguin, 2013)
- S. C. M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2011)
- Yuma Totani, The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II (Harvard University Press, 2009)
- Odd Arne Westad, Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2003)
In Our Time - The Sino-Japanese War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b042ldyq/In_Our_Time_The_SinoJapanese_War/
The Sino-Japanese War: Dr. Tehyun Ma on BBC’s “In Our Time”
Posted on May 8, 2014 by CIGH Exeter
http://imperialglobalexeter.com/2014/05/08/the-sino-japanese-war-dr-tehyun-ma-on-bbcs-in-our-time/
Be sure to listen to the Centre for Imperial & Global History’s own Dr. Tehyun Ma discussing the Sino-Japanese War on BBC Radio 4’s “In Our Time.”
2014年6月18日(水)付の個人電子書簡で簡単に感想を述べる
Dear Norman,
How are you getting along? Are you hopping around freely like a little lamb reborn after the successful (I’m sure it was flawless) surgical operation?
As for me, despite the constant menace from China’s navy and nomenclature, I’ve booked flights to Europe and inside and outside the Continent. I’ll start my journey on Monday 18th August. Following my visits to Germany, Iceland, Sweden and Norway, I’ll reach Manchester Airport at last on Wednesday 10th September. I’ll spend some time in the English Lakes and visit Lancaster Uni for the 50th anniversary event at the weekend.
Would you be able to accommodate me for 4 nights in mid September, namely from Sunday 14th September to the morning of Thursday 18th?
Thank you for letting me know the interesting programme on BBC Radio 4. I see it happened to be broadcast on your birthday/VE-Day. I found the discussion fairly well-balanced though I’d say the absence of a Japanese researcher there is a bit pity, which led to the lack of Japanese perspective. The discussants should have looked upon the Japanese atrocities in Nanking/Nanjing in the winter of 1937/38 by comparing it with the smaller scale but even more gruesome incident (Tungchow Mutiny) committed by the Kuomintang against the Japanese expatriates in late July 1937, about half a year before Nanking.
Well, well, politics and propaganda aside, I hope to see you in about 3 months’ time (Could I?).
Toshiaki