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The Battle For Asia
''The Battle for Asia'' is a book by Edgar Snow, published by Random House in April 1941. It portrays China during the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Background Edgar Snow arrived in Yanan, China on July 13, 1936, with the help of Madame Soong Ching Ling. Before Edgar Snow's arrival, very little was known about the Chinese Communists from the outside world. Once in Yanan, Edgar Snow met the leader of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong. Edgar's early years in "Red China" would be the basis for his book "Red Star Over China." which was published in 1937, and was reported to be a big hit in London, selling 100,000 copies. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Edgar Snow began reporting on the conflict, which would be the basis for his book The Battle for Asia. Synopsis The Battle for Asia reports on the events and atmosphere of China during the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese war. The book opens with the Japanese occupation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Ye Snow
Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther von Brauchitsch. Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath is dismi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Panay Incident
The USS ''Panay'' incident was a Empire of Japan, Japanese bombing attack on the United States Navy, U.S. Navy river gunboat and three Standard Oil, Standard Oil Company tankers on the Yangtze River near the Chinese capital of Nanjing on 12 December 1937. Japan and the United States were not at war at the time. The boats were part of the American naval operation called the Yangtze Patrol, which began following the joint British, French, and American victory in the Second Opium War. The bombing raid resulted in the sinking of the ''Panay'' as well as the deaths of three Americans on board, plus an unknown but likely high casualty toll amongst the Chinese passengers in the three river tankers. Public reaction was mixed in the U.S., with the president weighing various diplomatic and military responses only to settle for an apology and compensation. The Japanese claimed that they did not see the large U.S. flags painted on the deck and canvases of the gunboat. Tokyo officially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch East Indies Campaign
The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands. The East Indies were targeted by the Japanese for their rich oil resources which would become a vital asset during the war. The campaign and subsequent three-and-a-half-year Japanese occupation was also a major factor in the end of Dutch colonial rule in the region. Background The East Indies was one of Japan's primary targets if and when it went to war because the colony possessed abundant valuable resources, the most important of which were its rubber plantations and oil fields; the colony was the fourth-largest exporter of oil in the world, behind the U.S., Iran, and Romania. The oil made the islands enormously important to the Japanese, so they sought to secure the supply for themselves. They sent four fleet ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayan Campaign
The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the , was a military campaign fought by Allies of World War II, Allied and Axis powers, Axis forces in British Malaya, Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 15 February 1942 during the World War II, Second World War. It was dominated by Land warfare, land battles between Commonwealth of Nations, British Commonwealth army units and the Imperial Japanese Army, with minor skirmishes at the beginning of the campaign between British Commonwealth and Royal Thai Police. The Japanese had air and naval supremacy from the opening days of the campaign. For the British, Indian, Australians, Australian, and Federated Malay States, Malayan forces defending the colony, the campaign was a total disaster. The operation is notable for the Japanese use of bicycle infantry, which supposedly allowed troops to carry more equipment and swiftly move through thick jungle terrain. Royal Engineers, equipped with demolition charges, destroyed over a hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burma Campaign
The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of British rule in Burma, Burma as part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. It primarily involved forces of the Allies of World War II, Allies (mainly from the British Empire and the Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China, with support from the United States) against the invading forces of the Empire of Japan. Imperial Japan was supported by the Thailand in World War II, Thai Phayap Army, as well as two Collaboration with Imperial Japan, collaborationist independence movements and armies. Nominally independent puppet states were established in the conquered areas and some Saharat Thai Doem, territories were annexed by Thailand. In 1942 and 1943, the international Allied force in British Raj, British India launched Burma campaign (1942–1943), several failed offensives to retake lost territories. Burma campaign 1944, Fighting intensified in 1944, and British Empire forces peaked at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific War
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theatre, was the Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the Allies of World War II, Allies in East Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theatre of the war, including the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Pacific Ocean theatre, the South West Pacific theater of World War II, South West Pacific theatre, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the brief Soviet–Japanese War, and included some of the Largest naval battle in history, largest naval battles in history. War between Japan and the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China had begun in 1937, with hostilities dating back to Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, but the Pacific War is more widely accepted to have started in 1941, when the United States and United Kingdom entered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Aoyama
(real name Kuroda Zenji) was a Japanese communist who joined the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Childhood According to journalist Edgar Snow, Aoyama was born an Orphan. He was eventually adopted by a family who put him to work at age five. At age 16 he went to work in a factory. Political Activity in Japan and flight to China At some point Kazuo served in the "rank and file" of the labor movement in Japan, organizing unions in Japan's heavy industries. Before the war broke out he was sent to Shanghai on a "Special Mission." He then attached himself to the Chinese Army. In Nanjing, he worked in the political department. By age 40 he was described to have become a leader in the "Japanese revolutionary movement" while operating in wartime China. In Hankow, he was a political advisor for a Korean Volunteer corps. Kazuo would attempt to raise a Army of 70 Koreans in China to be deployed to Wuhan. The Nationalist government accepted Aoyama’s plan. By Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wataru Kaji
was the nom de guerre for Mitsugi Seguchi (), a Japanese writer, literary critic, and political activist. During his lifetime, he worked as a Political dissidence in the Empire of Japan, anti-militarist activist in pre-war Japan, and, after the outbreak of WW2, joined Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan, the Chinese resistance to Imperial Japan. After the war, he would be kidnapped and tortured by CIA activities in Japan, US intelligence for suspicion of being a Soviet Union, Soviet Spy. Biography Wataru Kaji was born in the village of Misaki in what was then Nishikunisaki District, Ōita (today part of Bungotakada, Ōita, Bungotakada) in 1903. He became involved with activism starting while at Tokyo Imperial University, and joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1932. In 1934, Kaji was charged with violating the Peace Preservation Law and threatening the Kokutai, being jailed for around a year and resulting in his flight to China in January 1936.Esselst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Turkestan
Chinese Turkestan or Chinese Turkistan, is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole which was under the rule of the Qing dynasty of China. It is considered a part of the Chinese Tartary that covered the Inner Asian regions ruled by the Qing dynasty. The Europeans commonly used this term especially during the period of the Qing dynasty to denote the division of Turkestan into territories controlled by the Chinese and the Russians, with the latter controlling Russian Turkestan in the west. Etymology Eastern Central Asia was historically referred to as the Western Regions under the control of the Han dynasty and Tang dynasty of China. Over the course of the history the Turkic people conquered the Persian-speaking people in the region and established several small principalities in Central Asia. They then ruled over the region (later fell under the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Independence Movement
The Korean independence movement was a series of diplomatic and militant efforts to liberate Korea from Japanese rule. The movement began around the late 19th or early 20th century, and ended with the surrender of Japan in 1945. As independence activism on the peninsula was largely suppressed by Japan, many significant efforts were conducted abroad by the Korean diaspora, as well as by a number of sympathetic non-Koreans. In the mid-19th century, Japan and China were forced out of their policies of isolationism by the West. Japan then proceeded to rapidly modernize, forcefully open Korea, and establish its own hegemony over the peninsula. Eventually, it formally annexed Korea in 1910. The 1919 March First Movement protests are widely seen as a significant catalyst for the international independence movement, although domestically the protests were violently suppressed. In the aftermath of the protests, thousands of Korean independence activists fled abroad, mostly to China. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Won-bong
Kim Won-bong (; 1898 – ) was a Korean independence activist, Korean anarchist, communist, and later statesman for North Korea. He was a general of the Korean Liberation Army and the commander of the Heroic Corps and the Korean Volunteer Corps. His art name was Yaksan (). He used a variety of pseudonyms during his exile abroad in China, including Ch'oe Rim (), Yi Ch'ung (), Chin Kuk-pin (), and Ch'ŏn Se-dŏk (). Biography Kim was born in 1898 in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korean Empire. He was born to father Kim Chu-ik () and mother Yi Kyŏng-nyŏm () and into the Gimhae Kim clan. In his youth, he studied at a ''seodang'', a traditional Korean school. In 1908, he enrolled in a modern-style school. In 1910, he attended the Donghwa Middle School (). In 1913, he attended a school in Seoul. In 1916, he was in China, learning the German language. In 1918, he enrolled in the University of Nanking. In February 1919, Kim entered the and underwent military education f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
Chinese Industrial Cooperatives ( zh, c=工業合作社, p=Gōngyè Hézuòshè) (CICs) were organisations established in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) to support China's war effort by organizing small-scale grassroots industrial and economic development. The movement was led by the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Association (CICA or Indusco), founded in 1938 by foreign and Chinese activists. Its international arm the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (ICCIC, also known by the nickname Gung Ho International Committee) was founded in 1939 in Hong Kong to promote cooperatives in China. The movement was especially active in the 1930s and 1940s with support from both left and right wings of Chinese politics. The movement disappeared after the 1950s after the establishment of the People's Republic of China government, but CICA and ICCIC were revived in the 1980s and are still active in the twenty-first century. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
