Symposium on the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

Symposium on the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Editor's introduction: After attending the 1987 Conference on Nationalist Archives and History in Nanjing, Editorial Board member Lloyd Eastman proposed that Republican China publish a thematic issue showcasing Chinese scholarship from that meeting. We asked Professor Li Yuning , also a participant at Nanjing, to help identify promising essays , and she suggested for translation a cluster of six papers on the Second Sino-Japanese War. Coincidentally, Professor Peter Seybol t had. sent me a historiographic essay on Sino-Japanese War scho~arship, and, as it'happened, Professor Sophia Lee was proposing a bibliographic essay on urban wartime China. These scholars, together with two of Professor Seybolt 's graduate students, Ms. Lee Mcisaac and Ms. Ellen Welch Granter, as well as Prpfessor Wu Tienwei make up the team that brought this Symposium to fruition. Concerning documentation: The six essays originally presented at the Nanjing Conference ranged from those that were fully footnoted to "think pieces." Translators and authors have enhanced documentation , but I sense that some readers may want to know more about sources. If so, I encourage you to contact the authors directly: Cai Dejin Marx-Lenin Research Institute Beijing Normal University Beitaipingzhuang Beijing, PRC Zhang Qi-fu Gu Ying-hui Suzhou University Suzhou, Jiangsu, PRC Van Ruping Zheng Zimin Institute of Modern History Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 1 Dongchang Hutong Wangfu Dajie, Beijing, PRC 2 Fei Zheng Li Zuomin Department of History Political Science Institute of Nanjing Nanjing, Jiangsu, PRC Wu Shouqi Wu Jing Department of History Anhui University Hefei, Anhui, PRC Dang Dexin Literature and History Office C.P.P.C.C. Beijing, 100811, PRC ...