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  title info:
    title: Men to devils, devils to men
    sub title: Japanese war crimes and Chinese justice
  name:
    name part: Kushner, Barak
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 403 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Japanese Army committed numerous atrocities during its pitiless campaigns in China from 1931 to 1945. When the Chinese emerged victorious with the Allies at the end of World War II, many seemed ready to exact retribution for these crimes. Rather than resort to violence, however, they chose to deal with their former enemy through legal and diplomatic means. Focusing on the trials of, and policies toward, Japanese war criminals in the postwar period, Men to Devils, Devils to Men analyzes the complex political maneuvering between China and Japan that shaped east Asian realpolitik during the Cold War. Barak Kushner examines how factions of Nationalists and Communists within China structured the war crimes trials in ways meant to strengthen their competing claims to political rule. On the international stage, both China and Japan propagandized the tribunals, promoting or blocking them for their own advantage. Both nations vied to prove their justness to the world, competing groups in China by emphasizing their magnanimous policy toward the Japanese and Japan by openly cooperating with postwar democratization initiatives. At home, however, Japan allowed the legitimacy of the war crimes trials to be questioned in intense debates that became a formidable force in postwar Japanese politics. In uncovering the different ways the pursuit of justice for Japanese war crimes influenced Sino-Japanese relations in the postwar years, Men to Devils, Devils to Men reveals a Cold War dynamic that still roils east Asian relations today.
  table of contents: Defeat in denial : the regional impact of Japan's surrender -- Devil in the details : Chinese policies on Japan's war crimes -- Flexible imperial identity : administering postwar legal guilt -- Chinese nationalist justice : the KMT trials -- Taiwan : political expediency and Japanese imperial assistance -- An unsatisfying peace : shifting attitudes on war crimes -- Socialist magnanimity : the CCP trials.
  note: Barak Kushner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    topic: War crime trials
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: War crimes
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Atrocities
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
  classification: KNQ43 .K87 2015
  classification: 341.6/90268
  identifier: 9780674728912
  identifier: 0674728912
  identifier: 0674735897
  identifier: 9780674735897
  identifier: 2014014453
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140530
    record change date: 20170926152330.0
    record identifier: in00003738792