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CHINA’S WAR REPORTERS C H I N A ' S W A R R E P O R T E R S THE LEGACY OF RESISTANCE AGAINST JAPAN PARKS M. COBLE ✦ ✦ ✦ Cambridge, Massachusetts London, En gland 2015 Copyright © 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First printing Cataloging- in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 978- 0- 674- 96767- 0 (alk. paper) In memory of Betty and Jayne CONTENTS Map: Occupied areas in 1944 x INTRODUCTION 1 1 EUPHORIA 9 Th e War Th ey Wanted 2 COPING WITH RETREAT 31 Mobilizing for Long-Term Re sis tance 3 COPING WITH ATROCITY 55 Fostering the Unity of the People 4 WART IME MOVEMENT 80 Survival, Displacement, and Mobility 5 DESPAIR AND BITTER VICTORY 104 Th e Growing Civil War 6 LEGACIES OF WAR 131 Forgetting and a New Remembering 7 RECOVERING THE MEMORY OF THE WAR 163 Can the Past Serve the Present? CONCLUSION 191 Notes 201 Glossary 241 Ac know ledg ments 245 Index 249 Illustrations follow page 130. CHINA’S WAR REPORTERS

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When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang Kai-shek to resist Tokyo’s aggressive overtures. This was the war they wanted, convinced that their countrymen would triumph. Parks Coble recapture
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