Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.
Japan
Yamamuro, Manchuria under Japanese Dominion, 2006
Bill Sewell reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Zhenping, Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relationships in the Han-Tang Period, 2005.
Whalen Lai reviews the book for H-Buddhism, September, 2006.
Paul H. Kratoska, Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese History: Unknown Histories, 2005.
Bill Sewell reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
New Research on the Nanjing Incident
David Askew summarizes scholarship on what happened in Nanjing in December 1937.
Hilpert and Haak, Japan and China: Cooperation, Competition and Conflict, 2002
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan, March 2003.
Duara, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. State and Society in East Asia Series, 2003.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom reviews the book for H-Asia, May 2005.
Elleman, Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question, 2002
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Gallicchio, The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945, 2000
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Austin and Harris, Japan and Greater China: Political Economy and Military Power in the Asian Century, 2001
Nicholas Sarantakes reviews the book for H-Diplo, credit H-Asia.
Brooks, Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895-1938, 2000
Charles Kolb reviews the book for H-Diplo.
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