A food safety factory shutdown has Americans hunting for baby formula. Readying themselves for a covid-19 lockdown, Chinese in Beijing emptied store shelves. Emerging from lockdown, some in Shanghai are visiting well-provisioned markets. U.S.-China agricultural trade is booming, but many are still being left hungry. Food security, sustainability and safety remain issues.
World War II
Peattie, Drea, and van de Ven, eds., The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, 2010
This review by Roger Brown was originally published by the H-War discussion list and is reproduced here under Creative Commons license.
Clements, Wellington Koo: China (Makers of the Modern World), 2008.
Yongjin Zhang reviews the book for H-Diplo.
Wakabayashi, ed. The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-38- Complicating the Picture, 2007
This edited volume was reviewed by Sven Saaler for H-Genocide in September 2009. It is reprinted here under Creative Commons license.
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.
Zaccarini, The Sino-American Friendship as Tradition and Challenge: Dr. Ailie Gale in China, 1908-1950, 2001
Sayuri Shimizu reviews the book for H-Diplo.
Goodman, Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945, 2000
Matthew Young reviews the book for H-Diplo.
Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan (Treaty of Taipei) 1952
Signed at Taipei, 28 April 1952
Entered into force, 5 August 1952, by the exchange of the instruments of ratification at Taipei
Treaty of Peace with Japan, 1951
Treaty of Peace with Japan, Sept. 8, 1951, San Francisco, California, USA
Instrument of Surrender by Japan, 1945
Instrument of Surrender by Japan, September 2, 1945, Tokyo Bay
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