Japan and China: From War to Peace, 1894-1972

565 Pages·1975·29.796 MB·English

by  Marius B. Jansen

JAPAN AND CHINA

JAPAN and CHINA:
from War to Peace,
1894-1972
Marius B. Jansen
Princeton University
Rand MÇNally College Publishing Company / Chicago
Rand McNally History Series
Fred Harvey Harrington, Advisory Editor
Cover: Five-clawed imperial dragon, symbol of the Emperor of China, the Son of Heaven. Cour­
tesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
The maps on pages 8, 409, and 421 are from The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel C. Y. Hsu.
Copyright © 1970 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 : The Problem
CHAPTER 2 : Imperial China
1. China and Modernization, 10 / 2. The Road to
Shimonoseki, 17 ! 3. After Shimonoseki, 25 /
4. The Hundred Days, 29 / 5. The Boxers, 41 /
6. Conclusion, 4.5
CHAPTER 3 : ImperialJapan
1. Tokugawa Japan and Modernization, 48 /
2. Opening and Overthrow, 54 / 3. Meiji Mod­
ernization, 59 J 4. The Road to Shimonoseki,
66 / 5. Japan After the Triple Intervention, 72 /
6. The War with Russia, 77 / 7. State and Society in
Imperialjapan, 85
CHAPTER 4 : Japan and Change in Korea
1. Korea in the Nineteenth Century, 104 / 2. The
Opening of Korea, 108 / 3. Korea After Shimono­
seki, 114 / 4. The Closing of Korea, 726
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CHAPTER 5 : Japan and Change in China
1. The Hundred Days, 131 / 2. Manchu Reforms,
138 / 3. The Student Movement to Japan, 149 /
4. The Revolutionaries, 159
CHAPTER 6 : Changing of the Guard
1. The End of Imperial China, 179 / 2. The End of
Meiji Japan, 187 / 3. The Collapse of the European
Order, 194 / 4. Japanese Foreign Policy, 199 /
5. The Twenty-one Demands, 209
CHAPTER 1 : The New Generation
1. Areas of Change, 225 / 2. Intellectual Trends in
Taishö Tokyo, 231 / 3. The Korean Independence
Movement, 241 / 4. The Cultural Revolution in
China, 247 / 5. The Appearance of Communist
Parties, 258
CHAPTER 8 : China Under the Republic
1. The Countryside, 268 / 2. The Warlords, 273 /
3. The Reorganization of the Kuomintang, 283 /
4. The San Min Chu I, 290 / 5. The Northern
Expedition, 295 / 6. The Nationalist Decade, 307
CHAPTER 9 : Problems of Modernization in Japan
1. Bureaucrats and Politicians, 318 / 2. Workers and
Farmers, 327 / 3. Books and Bullets, 335 / 4. The
Army, 343
Contents ix
chapter 10 : The Road to the P ad fie War 354
1. The Washington Conference Order, 356 / 2. The
Russian Return, 367 / 3. Japan and Chinese National­
ism, 364 / 4. Manchurian Beginnings, 372 /
5. The China Quagmire, 395 / 6. Decision for
Disaster, 397
CHAPTER 11 : China in War and Revolution 410
1. Some Comparisons, 411 / 2. The Survival of the
Chinese Communists, 417 / 3. China at War, 425 /
4. The Communist Victory, 434
CHAPTER 12 : The Postwar Era 441
1. Japan in Isolation, 448 / 2. Divided Korea, 4^2 /
3. China Under the People’s Republic, 470 /
4. The Japanese Recovery, 490 / 5. The End of the
Postwar Era, 499
SOURCES 511
INDEX 537
L ist
o f Maps
The Ch’ing Empire in 1775 and 1911 8
Japan’s Territorial Expansion, 1871-1905 102
Control of Various Warlords in China, 1924 272
Japanese Occupied Areas of China, 1937-1945 409
The Long March, 1934-1935 421
Administrative Divisions, People’s Republic of China 500-501
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