Books - Secondary

This page contains a selected bibliography of secondary scholarship on the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 published in Chinese, Japanese, and English. All titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.

In principle, all newly catalogued Chinese materials follow the standards described in the ALA-LC Romanization Tables (Chinese) [PDF, 224KB]. Some older materials, however, were catalogued according to earlier romanization standards and their catalog records have not yet been revised to the new standards. For more details please see the Romanization & Search Strategies page.

Selected bibliography

Kang Ri zhan zheng qi jian Zhong Ri jian de xuan chuan zhan : 1937-1945 抗日战争期间中日间的宣传战 : 1937-1945 by Zhai, Yi'an 翟意安
Call Number: DS777.533.P76 Z435 2021
Published/Created: 2021
"A propaganda warfare between China and Japan during the War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1945"
Meiguo guo jia dang an guan guan cang Zhongguo kang zhan li shi ying xiang quan ji = The pictures of anti-Japanese war in the national archive of the USA 美国国家档案馆馆藏中国抗战历史影像全集 by Zhang Xianwen, Yang Tianshi.
Call Number: DS777.52 .M455 2016
Published/Created: 2016
Book series of historical photographs from collections outside China on the history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
Ti erh tzʻu Chung Jih chan cheng shih 第二次中日战争史 by Wu, Xiangxiang
Call Number: DS777.53 .W818 China
Published/Created: Taipei: Zong he yue kan she : [1973]
Chinese book on the general history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.

731 Butai zenshi: Ishii Kikan to gungakukansan kyōdōtai 731 部隊全史 : 石井機関と軍学官産共同体
Call Number: DS777.533.B55 T778 2022 Japan
Published/Created: 2022
A comprehensive study of the Unit 731, also known as the Ishii Unit, which conducted chemical and biological warfare research that included experimentation on human test subjects.
Asahi shinbun no Chūgoku shinryaku 朝日新聞の中国侵略 by Taketoshi Yamamoto
Call Number: PN5369.S53 T35 2011
Published/Created: 2011
A study of the Asahi Shinbun newspaper's wartime reporting on the Sino-Japanese War.
Chūgoku shinryaku no shōgenshatachi: "ninzai" no kiroku o yomu 中国侵略の証言者たち : 「認罪」の記錄を読む
Call Number: DS777.533.A86 C56 2010 Japan
Published/Created: 2010
A study on accounts of war crimes committed in China by the Japanese Imperial Army.
Kōki Nitchū Sensō: Taiheiyō Sensō ka no Chūgoku sensen 後期日中戦争 : 太平洋戦争下の中国戦線
Call Number: DS777.53 .H556 2021 Japan FT MEADE
Published/Created: 2021
A study of Japan's "China front" in the later years of the war, after Japan also went to war with the United States and the Allies.
Nitchū Sensō kenkyū no genzai : rekishi to rekishi ninshiki mondai 日中戦争研究の現在 : 歴史と歴史認識問題 = Current Research on the Sino-Japanese War: The History and Its Controversies
Call Number: DS777.53 .N5834 2022 Japan
Published/Created: 2022
A look at the current state of scholarship on the history of the war.
Sensō to bijutsu 1937-1945 戦争と美術 1937-1945 = Art in wartime Japan 1937-1945
Call Number: PN5369.S53 T35 2011
Published/Created: 2011
Collection of artwork depicting Japan at war between 1937 and 1945, with commentary and analysis from scholars.
Shō Kaiseki no shokan gaikō : Nitchū Sensō, mō hitotsu no senjō 蔣介石の書簡外交 : 日中戦争、もう一つの戦場 = Another Frontline: Correspondence between Chiang Kai-shek and the World Leaders, 1937-1945
Call Number: DS777.488.C5 A83 2021 Japan
Published/Created: 2021
A study of correspondence between Chiang Kai-shek and various world leaders during the war.

The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Mark Peattie (Editor); Edward Drea (Editor); Hans van de Ven (Editor)
Call Number: DS777.53 .B337 2011
ISBN: 9780804762069
Published/Created: 2010-12-10
This book brings together Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of military operations during the war.
China's Good War by Rana Mitter
Call Number: DS777.6 .M58 2020
ISBN: 9780674984264
Published/Created: 2020-09-15
China's Good War examines changing attitudes and interpretations of China's war with Japan from the early years of the PRC down to the present.
China's War Reporters by Parks M. Coble
Call Number: DS777.53 .C598 2015
ISBN: 9780674967670
Published/Created: 2015-03-09
This book recaptures the experiences of China's war correspondents during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
Collaboration by Timothy Brook
Call Number: DS777.533.C64 B76 2005
ISBN: 0674015630
Published/Created: 2005-02-28
This work explores the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers.
Factories of Death by Sheldon H. Harris
Call Number: DS777.533.B55 H37 2002
ISBN: 0415932149
Published/Created: 2002-03-22
Factories of Death details the activities of the Japanese army scientists who conducted horrifying experiments upon live human beings. This new edition has been completely updated and contains a new chapter detailing the revelations that surfaced after the book's initial publication in 1994.
Fallen Tigers by Daniel Jackson
Call Number: D790.22 14th .J33 2021
ISBN: 9780813180809
Published/Created: 2021-05-11
The author, himself a combat-tested pilot, recounts the stories of downed aviators who attempted to evade capture by the Japanese in their bid to return to Allied territory. He reveals the heroism of these airmen was equaled, and often exceeded, by the Chinese soldiers and civilians who risked their lives to return them safely to American bases.
Intimate Communities by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Call Number: RA527 .B37 2018
ISBN: 9780520300460
Published/Created: 2018-10-23
Free e-book version of this title is available through the University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
When China's War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population.
Men to Devils, Devils to Men by Barak Kushner
Call Number: KNQ43 .K87 2015
ISBN: 9780674728912
Published/Created: 2015-01-05
Focusing on the trials of, and policies toward, Japanese war criminals in the postwar period, this work analyzes the complex political maneuvering between China and Japan that shaped East Asian realpolitik during the Cold War.
The Nanjing Massacre and the making of mediated trauma by Hongtao Li and Shunming Huang ; translated by Xinyue Chang and Edwin A. Schmitt
Call Number: DS797.56.N365 L52413 2022
ISBN: 9781032048437
Published/Created: 2022
English translation of a book originally published in Chinese that explores how collective memory of the Nanjing Massacre is fashioned in China.
The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938 by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (Editor)
ISBN: 9781785336744
Published/Created: 2017-08-01
An collection of essay exploring the Nanking Massacre from a variety of perspectives.
The Pacific War, 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga
Call Number: D767.2 .I313 1978
ISBN: 9780394734965
Published/Created: 1979-07-12
A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war.
Perilous Memories by Takashi Fujitani (Editor); Geoffrey M. White (Editor); Lisa Yoneyama (Editor)
Call Number: DS777.53 P44 2001
ISBN: 0822325322
Published/Created: 2001-06-21
Arguing that much is lost or erased when the Asia-Pacific War(s) are reduced to the 1941-1945 war between Japan and the United States, this collection challenges mainstream memories of the Second World War in favor of what were actually multiple, widespread conflicts.
Translating the Occupation by Jonathan Henshaw (Editor); Craig A. Smith (Editor); Norman Smith (Editor)
Call Number: DS777.5 .T73 2021
ISBN: 9780774864466
Published/Created: 2021-03-03
This volume provides a diverse selection of important primary sources from this period. Contributors have translated Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts on a wide range of subjects.
War and Popular Culture by Chang-tai Hung
Call Number: NX583.A1 H86 1994
ISBN: 0520082362
Published/Created: 1994-07-07
This is a comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China and its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
Wartime Shanghai by Wen-hsin Yeh (Editor)
Call Number: DS777.5316.S52 W37 1998
ISBN: 0415174414
Published/Created: 1998-06-05
This book explores the deep political rivalries between Nationalist groups, the intrigue of international espionage and how Shanghai society, from European administrators to Chinese film makers, collaborated with, or resisted, the Japanese occupation.
Women and Politics in Wartime China by Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Call Number: DS777.533.W65 G86 2019
ISBN: 9781138080645
Published/Created: 2018-12-03
Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group, this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical, social, cultural and political spaces of wartime China.
Wuhan 1938 by Stephen R. MacKinnon; Robert Capa (Filmed by)
Call Number: DS777.5316.W8 M33 2008
ISBN: 9780520254459
Published/Created: 2008-05-21
This work tells the full story of Wuhan's defense and fall, and how the siege's aftermath led to new directions in the history of modern Chinese culture, society, and politics.

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