A comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Examining developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country, it portrays the impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs and science.

James C. Hsiung, Steven I. Levine

1: China's Wartime Diplomacy; 2: China's Wartime State; 3: Contending Political Forces during the War of Resistance; 4: The Chinese Communist Movement; 5: The CCP's Foreign Policy of Opposition, 1937-1945; 6: The Military Dimension, 1937-1941; 7: The Military Dimension, 1942-1945; 8: The Chinese War Economy; 9: Science in Wartime China; 10: Literature and Art of the War Period; 11: Wartime Judicial Reform in China; 12: The War and After: World Politics in Historical Context