Collaboration : Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China /

Brook, Timothy, 1951-

Collaboration : Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China / Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China Timothy Brook. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005. - x, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.

Considering collaboration -- The plan -- Appearances/Jiading -- Costs/Zhenjiang -- Complicities/Nanjing -- Rivalries/Shanghai -- Resistance/Chongming -- Assembling the occupation state -- Conclusion : four ways truth disappears with history.

"Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers." "This groundbreaking study mirrors the more familiar stories of European collaboration with the Nazis, showing how the Chinese were deeply troubled by their unavoidable cooperation with the occupiers. The comparison provides a point of entry into the difficult but necessary discussion about this long-ignored aspect of the war in the Pacific."--BOOK JACKET.

0674015630 (alk. paper) 9780674015630 (alk. paper)

2004051130


Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Collaborationists--China.
Conflit sino-japonais, 1937-1945--Collaborateurs--Chine.

DS777.533.C64 / B76 2005

940.53/163/0951