Translating the Occupation

The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931–45

Edited by Jonathan Henshaw, Craig A. Smith, and Norman Smith
Categories: Military History, Asian Studies, World History
Publisher: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774864473, 480 pages, August 2021
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774864480, 480 pages, February 2021
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774864497, 480 pages, February 2021

Table of contents

Introduction: Discarding Binaries and Embracing Heteroglossia / Jonathan Henshaw, Craig A. Smith, and Norman Smith

Part 1: Manchukuo

1 Tales of Opening Manchuria / Ronald Suleski

2 Sakuta Shōichi, "The Light of Asia" / Bill Sewell and Norio Ota

3 Writings of Manchukuo’s Prime Minister Zheng Xiaoxu / Hua Rui

4 Education Policies and Theories in Manchukuo / Wang Yu

5 The Second Sino-Japanese War, Propaganda, and Medical Publications: Kaneko Junji’s “The China Incident from the Perspective of Psychiatry" / Janice Matsumura

6 An Inspection Report on Ideological Movements in Literature and Arts Activities / Xie Miya Qiong

7 Collection of Literary Selections by Each Ethnicity in Manchukuo-1, "Statements by Selectors" / Annika A. Culver

8 Open Letters from Women Writers of Manchukuo: Mei Niang and Wu Ying, Jia Ren to Yang Xu / Norman Smith

9 The Lives of Korean Women in Manchukuo / Jonghyun Lee

Part 2: East China

10 Xu Zhuodai, "Remarkable Soy Sauce!" / Christopher Rea

11 The Diary of Zhang Gang: An Excerpt / Weiting Guo

12 Two Indestructible Pillars of the Great Wall / Jennifer Junwa Lau

13 Uchiyama Bookstore: Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchanges in the Midst of War / Naoko Kato

14 Finding China’s "Asia" in Japanese Asianism / Torsten Weber

15 Collaboration and Propaganda: Yang Honglie and His Eight Speeches on Great Asianism / Craig A. Smith

16 The New Citizen’s Movement and Wang Jingwei-ism / Craig A. Smith

17 The Diaries of Zhou Fohai: Selected Translations from 1938 / Brian G. Martin

18 Kiang Kang-hu: "Starvation is a Serious Matter" / Jonathan Henshaw

19 Guan Lu, "How to Be a New Woman": Shanghai, March 1942 / Norman Smith

20 Yuan Shu: "The Current Stage of the Chinese Revolution and the Problem of Constitutional Government" / Matthew Galway

Part 3: North China and Beyond

21 Tang Erhe’s Educational Collaboration with Japan in North China, 1937–40 / David Luesink

22 The Transformation of Zhou Zuoren’s Thought and the Rhetorical Strategies Found in His Writing: "The Problem of Chinese Thought" / Xue Bingjie

23 Zhou Zuoren’s Letter to Zhou Enlai / Timothy Cronin

24 Lin Yutang: Non-Aligned Intellectual on the Japanese Occupation / Son Yoo Di

25 Struggles between Local Powers and Collaboration: Yan Xishan, the CCP, and the Western Shanxi Incident / Timothy Cheek

26 Tapping Into the Premodern Work-Contracting System / Zhang Yuanfang

27 An Anarchist Popular Resistance: The Awakening and China’s Resistance War at Home and Abroad / Morgan Rocks

28 Resolutions on Preventing Hanjian Activities and Espionage / Yun Xia

29 Kishida Kunio and the Problems of Culture / Timothy Iles

Contributors; Index

Description

From 1931 to 1945, Chinese citizens were subjugated to Japanese imperialism. Despite the enduring historical importance of the occupation, Translating the Occupation is the first English-language volume to provide such a diverse selection of important primary sources from this period. Contributors have translated Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts on a wide range of subjects, focusing on writers who have long been considered problematic or outright traitorous. This volume offers a practical, accessible sourcebook from which to challenge standard narratives. It deepens our understanding of the myriad tensions and transformations at work in Chinese wartime society.