Turning Point - A Key Moment in the Modern Sino-Japanese Game

Author: Lao Jiong
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This is destined to be a book that describes tragedy, as it concerns a history of intense conflicts between two countries that have been intertwined in enmity for millennia. The dragon represents the Chinese Flying Dragon, and the sword represents the Japanese samurai sword. But at a specific moment in modern times, they met fatedly. This book traces the starting point of the unspoken history between China and Japan over a century, restoring the initial enmity and emotional entanglement between the two nations. From the perspective of historical goodwill, it explores the causes of this specific historical turning point before and after the modern Sino-Japanese War, as well as the logical chain of its layered developments. It has nothing to do with cheap tears or anger; it only focuses on the core and some repeatable historical patterns. Since ancient times, Japan's expansionist direction has been the continent, with China being its geopolitical historical obstacle. In addition to conflicts of national interest, China and Japan, compared to other countries, have an extra layer of psychological and emotional conflicts. This special contradiction was formed through long-term historical interactions. Historically, due to geographical factors, the small Japanese archipelago has always harbored a desire to expand its living space onto the continent and challenge China, accompanied by the unification and division, as well as the rise and fall within Japan, with this desire rising and falling endlessly over millennia.