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Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. China was the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West. In this emotionally gripping book, made possible through access to newly unsealed Chinese archives, Rana Mitter unfurls the story of China's World War II as never...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's Flying Tigers tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled forces of Chiang Kai-Shek's China. These 300 individuals...
6) Ip Man
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
An experienced martial arts master tries to live a quiet life until one challenge makes him a hero. When an enemy demands he teach the Japanese army all he knows and he refuses, it becomes a battle to save his reputation, and his life. Bonus features include interviews with director and cast, deleted scenes, shooting diary, history of Wing Chun, and more.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year "Insightful…a deft, textured work of intellectual history." and#x2015;Foreign Affairs "A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in conceptualizations about the past and the present in contemporary China." and#x2015;Peter Frankopan, The Spectator For most of its history, China frowned on public discussion of the war against...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan's wartime "comfort women" have provoked international debate in the past two decades. Yet there has been a dearth of first-hand accounts available in English from the women abducted and enslaved by the Japanese military in Mainland China -- the major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Chinese Comfort Women features the personal stories of the survivors of this devastating system of sexual enslavement. Offering...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China’s Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond. Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking’s Forbidden City, for centuries the home of Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan’s aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.
13) Shanghai
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Nothing is what it seems in this Casablanca-style international thriller set in the ancient Chinese city a week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Secret Agent Paul Soames has just arrived to investigate the murder of his best friend, only to become quickly immersed in a web of conspiracy and lies that beset the city. Shadowed by a Japanese intelligence officer Tanaka, Soames2 investigation quickly centers on a charismatic local gangster, Anthony...
14) Air strike
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As a U.S. Army colonel trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters, a hotheaded pilot begs to fly a powerful bomber that could stop the attacks. Meanwhile, a team of spies and refugees must carry a game-changing decoder device through the war-torn countryside.
15) Nanking
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries.
16) Nanjing requiem
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.
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