Men to devils, devils to men : Japanese war crimes and Chinese justice /

The Japanese Army committed numerous atrocities during its pitiless campaigns in China from 1931 to 1945. When the Chinese emerged victorious with the Allies at the end of World War II, many seemed ready to exact retribution for these crimes. Rather than resort to violence, however, they chose to de...

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Main Author: Kushner, Barak, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Defeat in denial : the regional impact of Japan's surrender
  • Devil in the details : Chinese policies on Japan's war crimes
  • Flexible imperial identity : administering postwar legal guilt
  • Chinese nationalist justice : the KMT trials
  • Taiwan : political expediency and Japanese imperial assistance
  • An unsatisfying peace : shifting attitudes on war crimes
  • Socialist magnanimity : the CCP trials.