LEADER 03911nam 22007452 450 001 996248310603316 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a1-139-88884-6 010 $a1-139-56450-1 010 $a1-283-61061-2 010 $a9786613923066 010 $a1-139-55096-9 010 $a1-139-55592-8 010 $a1-139-54971-5 010 $a1-139-55467-0 010 $a1-139-55221-X 010 $a1-139-10583-3 024 7 $a2027/heb32834 035 $a(CKB)2670000000240665 035 $a(EBL)989182 035 $a(OCoLC)811502382 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000710929 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386530 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000710929 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10681456 035 $a(PQKB)11016962 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139105835 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC989182 035 $a(dli)HEB32834 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000402 035 $a(PPN)186380828 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000240665 100 $a20110706d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe wars for Asia, 1911-1949 /$fS.C.M. Paine$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 487 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-69747-6 311 $a1-107-02069-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart I. Fear and ambition: Japan, China, and Russia: 1. Introduction: the Asian roots of World War II -- 2. Japan 1931-1936: the containment of Russia and national restoration -- 3. China 1926-1936: chaos and the quest for the mandate of heaven -- 4. Russia 1917-1936: impending two-front war and world revolution -- Part II. Nested wars: a civil war within a regional war within a global war: 5. Flashback to 1911 and the beginning of the long Chinese Civil War -- 6. The regional war: the Second Sino-Japanese War -- 7. Global war: World War II -- 8. The final act of the long Chinese Civil War -- 9. Conclusion: civil war as the prologue and epilogue to regional and global wars. 330 $aThe Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an overarching global war. The global war that consumed Western attentions resulted from Japan's peripheral strategy to cut foreign aid to China by attacking Pearl Harbour and Western interests throughout the Pacific in 1941. S. C. M. Paine emphasizes the fears and ambitions of Japan, China and Russia, and the pivotal decisions that set them on a collision course in the 1920s and 1930s. The resulting wars together yielded a viscerally anti-Japanese and unified Communist China, the still-angry rising power of the early twenty-first century. 606 $aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zChina 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zJapan 607 $aChina$xHistory, Military$y1912-1949 607 $aJapan$xHistory, Military$y1868-1945 607 $aChina$xHistory$yCivil War, 1945-1949 615 0$aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 676 $a355.00951 686 $aHIS027000$2bisacsh 700 $aPaine$b S. C. M.$f1957-$01015481 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248310603316 996 $aThe wars for Asia, 1911-1949$92371553 997 $aUNISA