The Wars for Asia, 1911}}}1949 [Paperback]

This book shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War misrepresents their connections and causes.The Wars for Asia, 19111949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War as separate and distinct events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. 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 nested wars  the Chinese Civil War (19111949), the Second Sino-Japanese War (19311945), and World War II (19391945)  together yielded a viscerally anti-Japanese and unified Communist China, the still-angry rising power of the early twenty-first century. While these events are history in the West, they live on in Japan and especially China.The Wars for Asia, 19111949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War as separate and distinct events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. 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 nested wars  the Chinese Civil War (19111949), the Second Sino-Japanese War (19311945), and World War II (19391945)  together yielded a viscerally anti-Japanese and unified Communist China, the still-angry rising power of the early twenty-first century. While these events are history in the West, they live on in Japan and especially China.The Wars for Asia, 19111949 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 long Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found theml³"