<<The>> much troubled alliance US-China military cooperation during the Pacific War, 1941-1945

The topics of World War II and US-China relationship have been of much interest to academics and general public alike. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that has been produced on the topics over the past 50 years and offers the readers a new and balanced treatment of the topics. The scope of this book covers all the major political-military events from the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941 to the victory over Japan in August 1945. The scholarship in this subject area has long suffered from one serious flaw, i.e., unbalanced treatment. Although the leading works in the English language have aspired to conform to high professional standards, their intrinsic limitation is that they have only consulted English language materials, but have virtually failed to consult Chinese language materials. This phenomenon is unsatisfactory since wartime US-China alliance was a highly complicated 'bilateral' relationship which can only be adequately narrated and analyzed by taking into account both countries' data and perspectives. This book addresses this glaring deficiency by employing a large amount of original Chinese source materials, but also by discovering a considerable amount of new English language materials as well as subjecting other often-used English materials to a close scrutiny.This book enables the readers to take a completely fresh look at that important period of US-China relations.--Back cover Ben shu jie da le cong lu gou qiao shi bian dao zhen zhu gang shi jian, zhe duan qi jian de zhong mei guan xi dao di jing li le he zhong bian hua?te bie shi zhong guo zheng fu dui mei wai jiao de jue ce guo cheng shi shen me?you he ren zhi xing?zhong guo de wai jiao mu de shi shen me?tan pan de ji qiao ru he?mei fang de fan ying shi shen me?zhong guo zheng fu zai zhe duan shi jian nei, zong ti de de shi you dang ru he ping jia?he yi zai 1937 nian 7 yue lu gou qiao zhan shi bao fa shi, mei guo zheng fu ren wei shi bu guan ji, er dao le 1941 nian 12 yue 7 ri tai ping yang zhan zheng bao fa shi, mei guo zheng fu que shi wan huo ji di cu qing zhong guo cheng wei bing jian zuo zhan de meng you?