Chapters

Introduction

Ⅰ. Fourteen Years of Resistance

Ⅱ. A National Turning Point: from Decline to Rejuvenation

Ⅲ. The Main Eastern Battlefield in the Global Waragainst Fascism

Ⅳ. The Mainstay of Chinese United Resistance

Chapter One Japan Invades and China's Regional Resistance Startsthe Global War against Fascism

Ⅰ. Militarism and the Eastern Hotbed of War Develop in Japan

Ⅱ. Japan Manufactures the September 18th Incident,Starting Its Regional Aggression against China

Ⅲ. Regional Resistance Begins

Chapter Two Regional Resistance Develops and the ChineseUnited Front against Japanese Aggression Begins to TakeShape

Ⅰ. Japanese Aggression Escalates andRegional Resistance Develops

Ⅱ. Japan Engineers the "North China Incident" andthe Resistance Movement Reaches New Heights

Ⅲ. In Northeast China Backstage Battlefields Take Shape andCounter-Japanese Guerrilla Warfare Reaches a High

IV. KMT-CPC Cooperation Begins to Form and China Preparesfor Nationwide Resistance

Chapter Three Japan Launches Full-Scale Aggression and ChinaResponds with Nationwide Resistance, Becoming the MainEastern Battlefield in the Global War against Fascism

Ⅰ Nationwide Resistance Begins and the United FrontFormally Takes Shape

Ⅱ. Lines and Strategies for the War of Resistance

Ⅲ. Reorganization of the Red Army's Main Forces andVictory at Pingxingguan

Ⅳ. The Battles of Shanghai and Taiyuan

Chapter Four Coordination Develops between Center Stage andBackstage Battlefields, and the Japanese Fascists' Attempt at aQuick Victory Is Shattered

Ⅰ. Backstage Battlefields in Northern China

Ⅱ. The Battles of Nanjing and Xuzhou

Ⅲ. The New Fourth Army's Fight against the Japaneseand Its Backstage Battlefields in Central China

Ⅳ. The Battle of Wuhan and the Fall of Guangzhou

Chapter Five The Chinese Resistance Reaches a High and ChinaReceives Support from the International Community

Ⅰ. The Political, Economic, Cultural, and Diplomatic Landscapein China Following the Start of the Nationwide Warof Resistance

Ⅱ. The People's Resistance in China

Ⅲ. Assistance from Overseas Chinese

Ⅳ. International Support

Chapter Six China Continues to Fight Alone and the BackstageBattlefields Become the Main Battleground in the NationwideWar of Resistance

Ⅰ. Strategic Adjustments by China and Japan as StrategicStalemate Begins

Ⅱ. Consolidation and Development of Resistance Bases behindJapanese Lines and the Hundred-Regiment Campaign

Ⅲ. Center Stage Battles against Japanese Offensives

Ⅳ. Persevering with the Policy of United Resistance andMaintaining the Chinese United Front

Ⅴ. Democratic Reform and Development in Resistance Bases

Chapter Seven Chinese Soldiers and Civilians Fight on and ChinaContinues to Be the Main Eastern Battlefield in the Global Waragainst Fascism

Ⅰ. The Outbreak of the Pacific War and the Establishmentof an International Anti-Fascist United Front

Ⅱ. The Chinese Military and Civilian Struggle behindEnemy Lines

Ⅲ. China's Center Stage Battles and the Chinese Expedi-tionary Force's Fight in Burma in Support of the British

Chapter Eight Japanese Fascist Atrocities

Ⅰ. Massacre and Persecution

Ⅱ. Biological and Chemical Warfare: Japanese Violationsof the Geneva Protocol

Ⅲ. The Abduction and Enslavement of Chinese Laborers

Ⅳ. The Brutal Abuse of Chinese Women and the JapaneseMilitary's "Comfort Women" System ofSexual Enslavement

V. The Ravaging of Chinese Culture

Chapter Nine China Engages in Local Counter-Attacks andCooperates with Other Allied Forces in StrategicCounter-Offensives

Ⅰ. The Strategic Turning Point in the Global War against Fascismand the Preliminary Establishment of China's Positionas a Major Country

Ⅱ. Local Counter-Offensives on Backstage Battlefields

Ⅲ. Victory in the Northern Burma and Western YunnanCounter-Offensives and Crushing Defeat inthe Henan-Hunan-Guangxi Campaign

Ⅳ. The Chinese People's Struggle for Victory inthe War of Resistance and for the Establishmentof a Democratic Coalition Government

Chapter Ten Japan Surrenders and Victory Is Secured

Ⅰ. The International Situation on the Eve of Victoryin the War of Resistance

Ⅱ. Counter-Offensives in All Liberated Areas

Ⅲ. Japan's Surrender and the Acceptance Ceremonyin the China Theater

Ⅳ. The People of Taiwan's Resistance against the Japaneseand the Recovery of Taiwan

Ⅴ. Japanese War Crimes Trials

Concluding Remarks

Afterword