Towards the "Final Hour" (The Japanese Factor in the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1931-1937)

Author: (American) Coburn, Parks M. (Author), Ma Junya (Translator)
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: The impact of Japan on the political development of China is the theme of this book. After the "September 18 Incident," Chiang Kai-shek pursued the policy of "first securing the interior before resisting the exterior." This policy did not during the "Xi'an Incident" and was not fully abandoned until the war broke out in Shanghai in August 1937. Under the analytical framework of nation-state building, the author examines the consistency and conflict between the Nationalist regime and the nationalist ideology from a "third eye" outside the narratives of the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party, which helps deepen our understanding of the "Ten-Year Construction Period in Nanjing" (1927–1937).
Author Bio: Coburn (formerly translated as "Little Bourne," Parks M. Coble) is a historian with a Ph.D. He taught at North Dakota State University in the United States from 1975 to 1976. Since 1976, he has been teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, serving as a professor in the Department of History. His works include The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard East Asian Monograph Series, 1980); Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Ideology and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard East Asian Monograph Series, 1991); Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangtze, 1937-1945 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Additionally, he has published 10 papers on modern Chinese history in journals and anthologies such as Chinese Studies in History.