During the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-45, the Chinese Communist Party experienced an astonishingly rapid increase in resources and momentum that provided the wherewithal for the triumph of the 1949 rev
This groundbreaking study on the forging of Chinese communism in the furnace of the anti-Japanese war focuses on North China, where the Chinese Communist Party first took root and later expanded to co
Writings on post-war Japanese politics have tended to take for granted the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as inevitable, without questioning how this came about. This book analyses th