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Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
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by Timothy Brook
Sales Rank: 115957
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Cover Type: Paperback with 302 pages
Published by: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition March 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674023986
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674023987
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Product Review
Foreign Affairs : Brook has with great care taken up the sensitive topic of Chinese collaboration with the Japanese conquerors during the Sino-Japanese War--a subject that the Chinese are still hesitant to address. His study concentrates on local collaboration in the Yangtze delta region in Shanghai's hinterland, avoiding the more shocking cases of puppet regimes in north and northeast China and the 'national government' in Nanjing. China, unlike France after World War II, had no chance to work out the moral and psychological issues related to collaboration, and even today outrage at Japanese atrocities obscures questions of Chinese collaboration. Brook builds his thoughtful analysis on Japanese archival documents, Chinese memoirs, and interviews. By concentrating on the local level, he makes vivid the personal relationships between Chinese and Japanese administrators as they dealt with day-to-day problems. He concludes that there was no shortage of Chinese elites ready to work for the Japanese, but that the relationship remained complicated and tense.
--Lucian Pye
Chinese Historical Review : [A] finely researched and subtly nuanced study of collaboration in the Lower Yangtze Valley during the initial year of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 What is remarkable is that Professor Brook has uncovered from both the Chinese and Japanese sides archival and memoir literature of a quality that allows him to present case studies that illuminate the ambiguities and complexities of collaboration, not to mention the essential mechanics of how it was sought and arrangedThis work is not only a major contribution to the History of the Sino-Japanese War and that of modern China; it also makes an invaluable addition to the comparative History of wartime collaboration through recounting the Chinese experience of survival under the occupation state.
--David P. Barrett
American Historical Review : Timothy Brook's superb book is an example of the doing and writing of History at its bestIn addition to painting a compelling picture of the multileveled and multidirectional complexity and ambiguity of politics and society under the occupation, Brook's work is studded with notable insightsBrook's writing style is at the same time urbane and engaging. In sum, this is an great study and a great read as well.
--R. Keith Schoppa
International History Review : Timothy Brook's study of wartime collaboration between Chinese local elites and Japanese army agents is a welcome and necessary part of the new historical thinking about wartime ChinaBrook's book is a meticulously researched, subtly argued, and courageous study of a still delicate topic. It will be of value to all readers who wish to explore the dynamics of the 1937-45 Sino-Japanese War in more detail, and adds depth and maturity to a field that has sometimes seemed the prisoner of the type of nationalist paradigms that Brook seeks to undermine.
--Rana Mitter
Chinese Historical Review : This work is not only a major contribution to the History of the Sino- Japanese War and that of modem China; it also makes an invaluable addition to the comparative History of wartime collaboration through recounting the Chinese experience of survival under the occupation state.
--David P. Barrett
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A fascinating book that offers a wealth of material on issues and events that are not well known. The prose is informal and engaging, bringing the reader into the problems Brook faced in researching such a sensitive topic. The stories he explores are part both of a distinctive Chinese History and a common (and difficult) History of conquest and rule in the twentieth century.
--R. Bin Wong, Director, UCLA Asia Institute
Brook has written a very rich study, drawing on exceptional primary sources, that brings forward new facts and deals with burning issues.
--Marie-Claire Bergère, author of Sun Yat-sen
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