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Forgotten Ally: China’s World War ii , 1937-1945 , written by Rana Mitter

Forgotten Ally: China’s World War ii , 1937-1945 , written by Rana Mitter Forgotten Ally: China’s World War ii , 1937-1945 . Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. pp. xii, 450. $30.00. isbn 978-0618894253. Rana Mitter’s book fills an important gap in current scholarship on China in the Second World War. Although Chinese scholars in China have been arguing for a while that the Second Sino-Japanese War was part of and should be treated as part of the Second World War, Mitter’s book is the first in the English language to do so. It is a well-written and comprehensive political history of China during the Second World War that not only re-situates the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, but also provides a new perspective on the history of the Second World War more broadly. Mitter’s book makes several significant contributions. Most existing English-literature scholarship on the Second Sino-Japanese War consists of specialized studies that focus either on the Chinese Communist Party ( ccp )-held areas, the Nationalist Party ( gmd )-held regions, the pro-Japanese Wang Jingwei government, Manchukuo, or the Japanese-occupied territories respectively. Although these specialized studies provide an in-depth examination of each region and entity, they contribute to the fragmentation of the overall history of the Second http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Chinese Military History Brill

Forgotten Ally: China’s World War ii , 1937-1945 , written by Rana Mitter

Journal of Chinese Military History , Volume 4 (2): 204 – Nov 12, 2015

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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2212-7445
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2212-7453
DOI
10.1163/22127453-12341288
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Forgotten Ally: China’s World War ii , 1937-1945 . Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. pp. xii, 450. $30.00. isbn 978-0618894253. Rana Mitter’s book fills an important gap in current scholarship on China in the Second World War. Although Chinese scholars in China have been arguing for a while that the Second Sino-Japanese War was part of and should be treated as part of the Second World War, Mitter’s book is the first in the English language to do so. It is a well-written and comprehensive political history of China during the Second World War that not only re-situates the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, but also provides a new perspective on the history of the Second World War more broadly. Mitter’s book makes several significant contributions. Most existing English-literature scholarship on the Second Sino-Japanese War consists of specialized studies that focus either on the Chinese Communist Party ( ccp )-held areas, the Nationalist Party ( gmd )-held regions, the pro-Japanese Wang Jingwei government, Manchukuo, or the Japanese-occupied territories respectively. Although these specialized studies provide an in-depth examination of each region and entity, they contribute to the fragmentation of the overall history of the Second

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Published: Nov 12, 2015

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