The Far East, a modern history
by Peffer, Nathaniel
Series: The University of Michigan history of the modern world Published by : University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor) Physical details: 489 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 950 Pef (Browse shelf) | Available | 26592 |
The traditional Chinese system --
The traditional Japanese system --
The West reaches out --
The West strikes --
China is forced open --
China's decline sets in --
Japan opened to the world --
Japan accepts the new dispensation --
China inert and immovable --
The missionary movement --
The Chinese empire breaks off at the edges --
Japan resolves to modernize --
Constitutionalism, Japanese style --
The climax begins : Sino-Japanese war --
Cutting up the Chinese melon --
China recoils in desperation --
America asserts itself in the Pacific --
America enters the China conflict --
Russo-Japanese war --
China's belated conversion --
Revolution in China : the republic --
Japan takes the road to empire --
Japanese constitutionalism as a facade --
Fiasco of the Chinese republic --
World War I : Japan becomes aggressive --
Aftermath of World War I --
Nationalism rises in China --
Russia enters again --
Russia's part in the Chinese Nationalist movement --
Revolution begins in China --
The Nationalists take the offensive : fighting begins --
1927-28 : years of crisis --
The passing of the old order in China --
New spirit in Japan --
Reaction in Japan : back to expansion --
Japan consolidates its conquests --
Jingoism and terrorism in Japan --
Desperation and division in China --
Japan invades --
Pearl Harbor --
Dark days after Pearl Harbor --
American offensive : victory --
China : victorious and still divided --
The war's aftermath in southeast Asia --
Civil war in China --
Occupation of Japan --
The Korean War --
American policy toward Communist China --
Communization of China --
War in Indo-China.
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