A minor clash between troops of a Chinese army and Japanese units at the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing on 7 July 1937 led quickly to the undeclared 1937–1945 Sino-Japanese war, referred to here as the second Sino-Japanese conflict to avoid...

WarMajor engagements in bold Before Second Sino-Japanese WarMukden - Manchuria - (Jiangqiao - Nenjiang Bridge - Chinchow - Harbin) - Shanghai (1932) - Pacification of Manchukuo - Rehe - Great Wall - Inner Mongolia - (Suiyuan) Began in 1937-1939Marco...

The influence of American missionaries on the foreign policies of Japan and the United States before World War II is discussed. Issues include the missionaries' pursuit of international justice in East Asia during Japanese expansion in China and the lack of response by other...

S.C.M. Paine. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power and Primacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 4 maps, 424 pp. Hardcover $55.00, ISBN 0-521-81714-5. S.C.M. Paine's account of the Sino-Japanese War begins with the premise that this war was a...