Marxism,Anti-Japanese Resistance and Birth of the People’s Republic of China

Abstract

Rana Mitter, China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020), 336 pp., ₹2,220, ISBN: 9780674984264 (Hardcover).

Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival (London: Allen Lane, 2013), xxii+458 pp. £25.00 (cloth), £14.99 (eBook).

Rana Mitter, The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (California University Press, Hardcover 2000), 308 pages, $68.95 £54.00, ISBN 9780520221116.

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