China's Good War
Subtitle: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674984264
Description: "Once sidelined from public memory, World War II is now a historical touchstone in China. Rana Mitter links the reassessment of the war to China's rising nationalism. At home, Chinese use the war to shape conflicted identities; abroad the war with Japan is now treated as a Chinese victory, a founding myth for a people destined to shape the global order"--