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Japan
Yamamuro, Manchuria under Japanese Dominion, 2006
Bill Sewell reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Zhenping, Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relationships in the Han-Tang Period, 2005.
Whalen Lai reviews the book for H-Buddhism, September, 2006.
Paul H. Kratoska, Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese History: Unknown Histories, 2005.
Bill Sewell reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
New Research on the Nanjing Incident
David Askew summarizes scholarship on what happened in Nanjing in December 1937.
Hilpert and Haak, Japan and China: Cooperation, Competition and Conflict, 2002
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan, March 2003.
Duara, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. State and Society in East Asia Series, 2003.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom reviews the book for H-Asia, May 2005.
Elleman, Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question, 2002
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Gallicchio, The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945, 2000
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Austin and Harris, Japan and Greater China: Political Economy and Military Power in the Asian Century, 2001
Nicholas Sarantakes reviews the book for H-Diplo, credit H-Asia.
Brooks, Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895-1938, 2000
Charles Kolb reviews the book for H-Diplo.
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Featured Articles
We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
Events
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?