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1	Lust, Caution: The Story more books like this by Eileen Chang, Professor Julia Lovell (Translator), James Schamus add to wishlist Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Oscar] winner Ang Lee, this intensely passionate story of love and espionage brings 1940s Shanghai artfully to life even as it limns the erotic pulse of a doomed love affair. see all copies from £6.81! new only from £9.35! \| first editions
2	Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945 more books like this by Wanda Cornelius, Thayne Short add to wishlist "A mixture of genuine swashbuckling heroics and constant privation makes for a realistic and gripping story of men at war". A Military Book Club Selection. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.34! \| first editions
3	Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) more books like this by Takashi Fujitani (Editor), Lisa Yoneyama (Editor), Geoffrey M White (Editor) add to wishlist "Perilous Memories" makes a groundbreaking and critical intervention into debates about war memory in the Asia Pacific region. Arguing that much is lost or erased when the Asia Pacific War(s) are reduced to the 1941-1945 war between Japan and the United States, this collection challenges mainstream memories of the Second World War in favour of ... see all copies from £10.96! new only from £17.35!
4	The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 more books like this by Sarah C M Paine add to wishlist The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the ... see all copies from £21.02! new only from £21.95!
5	In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation more books like this by Christian Henriot (Editor), Wen-hsin Yeh (Editor) add to wishlist The authors of this volume consult Chinese and Western archival materials to examine the Chinese War of Resistance against the Japanese in the Shanghai area. They argue that the war in China was a nationalistic endeavour carried out without an effective national leadership. Wartime Chinese activities in Shanghai drew upon social networks rather ... see all copies from £22.01! new only from £22.01!
6	The Communist's Daughter more books like this by Dennis Bock add to wishlist From the acclaimed author of "The Ash Garden" comes Ran illuminating searchlight on the terra incognita where the personal and the political intersect" ("Newsday")"--an even more ambitious novel that follows a doctor from the trenches of the Great War into subsequent conflicts whose horrors would soon envelop the world. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	One Morning Like a Bird more books like this by Andrew Miller add to wishlist 1940. Tokyo. Japan is at war with China, and Yuji Takano is clinging to the life he has made for himself as a young poet - the company of his friends, the monthly meetings of the French Club at Monsieur Feneon's house, the days of writing and contemplation made possible by an allowance from his father, a professor at Tokyo's elite Imperial ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Escape to Life more books like this by Jan J Solecki add to wishlist see all copies from £6.38! signed copies \| first editions
9	Colonialisms more books like this by Ming-Cheng M Lo, Jennifer Robertson (Foreword by) add to wishlist An exploration of Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, Ming-cheng Lo unearths the points of convergence for medicine and ... see all copies from £6.09! new only from £14.21!
10	If I Get Out Alive: The World War II Letters and Diaries of William H McDougall JR more books like this by Gary Topping (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £10.34! new only from £12.74! \| signed copies
11	Two Kinds of Time more books like this by Graham Peck add to wishlist Graham Peck (1914-1968) made his first trip to China in 1935 and served with the U.S. Office of War Information in China throughout the 1940s. "Two Kinds of Time" is witty and eloquent in both its words and the drawings with which it is lovingly illustrated. Long out of print in its unabridged version, this engagingly written eye-witness narrative ... see all copies from £7.43! new only from £15.38! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Dragon's War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947 more books like this by Professor Maochun Yu add to wishlist see all copies from £14.71! new only from £14.71! \| first editions
13 view cover	Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg more books like this by James MacManus add to wishlist The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety -- only to die tragically in early 1945. The author, James MacManus, was working as a reporter ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.29!
14 view cover	Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 more books like this by Parks M Coble add to wishlist Examining the impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community, this text argues that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, showing that in occupied areas the activities of businessmen were closer to collaboration than resistance. see all copies from £13.62! new only from £22.86!
15 view cover	The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-38 more books like this by B T Wakabayashi (Editor) add to wishlist December 13, 2007 marks the 70th anniversary of the fall of the Chinese city of Nanking to the Japanese army. The "Nanking Atrocity" of winter 1937-8, also known as the "Nanking Massacre," lies at the core of bitter disputes over history, wartime victimization, and postwar restitution that preclude amicable Sino-Japanese relations to this day. ... see all copies from £16.90! new only from £24.70!
16 view cover	The Politics of Nanjing more books like this by Kitamura Minoru add to wishlist 28.00 see all copies from £16.39! new only from £26.70!
17	History of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) more books like this by Long-hsuen Hsu, Ming-Kai Chang add to wishlist see all copies from £22.28!
18 view cover	The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai more books like this by Marcia R Ristaino add to wishlist When Japanese forces attacked Shanghai in 1937, a French Jesuit, Father Robert Jacquinot de Besange, S.J., heroically stood up for human life. Father Jacquinot, who spent twenty-seven years in China, was determined to provide safety and refuge to victims of modern warfare. Through relentless negotiations and deft diplomacy, Father Jacquinot ... see all copies from £11.76! new only from £16.65!
19 view cover	Buddhism, War, and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945 more books like this by Xue Yu add to wishlist This groundbreaking book is a critical presentation of an under-examined aspect of Chinese Buddhist history. It examines the dilemmas Buddhist monks faced with regard to Buddhist concepts of non-killing and defending the nation during the Anti Japanese war and investigates how monks re-created traditions in order to serve the nation and society. see all copies from £66.68! new only from £66.68!
20 view cover	China at War: Regions of China, 1937-1945 more books like this by Stephen R MacKinnon (Editor), Diana Lary (Editor), Ezra F Vogel (Editor) add to wishlist In response to the leaders of China and Japan attacking each other for the way they deal with history, scholars from Japan, China, and the West held a conference in 2002, under the auspices of the Harvard Asia Center, to examine the Japanese invasion and occupation of China. The essays collected in this timely volume are the product of these ... see all copies from £45.18! new only from £45.18!
21 view cover	China Mailbag Uncensored: Letters from an American GI in WWII China and India more books like this by Lou Glist add to wishlist The China-Burma-India theater of war is vividly portrayed in this collection of illustrated letters. Glists fascinating artwork now hangs in Liuchow Museum. see all copies from £10.80! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Imperial Japan's World War Two: 1931-1945 more books like this by Werner Gruhl add to wishlist The full extent and brutality of imperial Japan's actions before and during the Second World War has not had the same cultural and political resonances as those of Nazi Germany, nor are they as well remembered. Werner Gruhl's objective is to present a fresh overview of the Asian-Pacific War and its victims, drawing particular attention to the ... see all copies from £30.14! new only from £30.14!
23 view cover	China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895-1904 more books like this by Ma Zachmann Urs, Urs Matthias Zachmann add to wishlist The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events, not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history, but in international history as well. The war and subsequent events catapulted Japan on its trajectory toward temporary hegemony in East Asia, whereas China entered a long period of domestic unrest and foreign ... see all copies from £78.69! new only from £78.69!
24 view cover	Bold Plum: With the Guerillas in China's War Against Japan more books like this by Hsiao Li Lindsay add to wishlist Hsiao Li Lindsay is a master storyteller and a historian's dream. She offers a day-by-day account of flight from Beijing [in 1941] with Japanese troops in pursuit, years with the Communist guerrillas in North China, childbirth on the trail, and refuge in Yenan. Bold Plum shows us the communist movement in all its precarious local variation. ... see all copies from £13.58! new only from £13.58!
25 view cover	Ishikawa: Soldiers Alive Cloth more books like this by Tatsuzo Ishikawa, Zeljko Cipris (Translator) add to wishlist When the editors of Chuo koron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prize-winning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzo to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation. They could not predict, however, that Ishikawa ... see all copies from £27.82! new only from £51.15!

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