Patriotic Collaboration?: Zhou Fohai and the Wang Jingwei Government during the Second Sino-Japanese War

  • Brian G. Martin
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Abstract

The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) has not receded into the past for the Chinese, but remains a complicating factor in contemporary Sino-Japanese relations. This is largely because of the way the Chinese government has used the War to gain an advantage over the Japanese government during periods of tension, and to stimulate anti-Japanese nationalist sentiment to bolster its nationalist credentials in a new post-communist age. This continuing politicization of the War means that, despite the huge number of works published in China over the last twenty years, it is still extremely difficult for Chinese historians to entirely break free from a narrow nationalist narrative that privileges the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The only real change in recent years has been the progressive inclusion of Chiang Kai-shek and the wartime Guomindang military into this narrative, an indication of the further trumping of communist ideology by nationalism.

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Chinese Communist Party Public Prosecutor Occupied Area Peace Movement Nationalist Government 
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