TY - JOUR
AU - Coox, Alvin D.
AB - Asia and the East 116g Chinese History," the ten chapters that follow DAVID BERGAMINI. japan's Imperial Conspiracy. New York: William Morrow and Company. deal with ideology, administration and control, 1971. Pp. xxxviii, 1239. $14.95. party politics, the military, economy, agricul­ ture, education, literature and art, the intellec­ A Chinese general once told David Bergamini tuals, and the national minorities. The last that "Japan was governed by an unworthy em­ three chapters discuss China and the Commu­ peror who hoped to conquer the world." Res­ nist world, China's approach to the outside urrecting wartime passions and fanning embers world, and United States-China relations. Each of the Tokyo trials, Imperial Conspiracy might represents the considered opinion and judg­ gratify that general. It is fitting that Sir Wil­ ment of a scholar whose competence is recog­ liam Webb, the Australian chief justice of the nized by the editors, and each contribution international military tribunal, provides an in­ stands by itself. In the absence of both an in­ troduction. Bergamini's thesis, simply put, im­ troduction and a conclusion one is inclined to plies that high policy subverted justice by sav­ believe that all thirteen chapters serve to pro­ major war ing the emperor 
TI - David Bergamini. Japan's Imperial Conspiracy. New York: William Morrow and Company. 1971. Pp. xxxviii, 1239. $14.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/77.4.1169
DA - 1972-10-01
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SP - 1169
EP - 1170
VL - 77
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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