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29, 1937 (original report from December 25, 1937), 477, 484.
63. On Pan-Asianism, see Eri Hotta, Pan-Asianism and Japan’s War, 1931–1945 (Basingstoke, 2007).
64. Iechika, “Nanjing xingshi,” 113.
65. Ibid., 114.
66. Ibid.
     
    8. THE BATTLE OF TAIERZHUANG
     
1. W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood , Journey to a War (London, 1938), 39.
2. See Stephen R. MacKinnon, Wuhan 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China (Berkeley, CA, 2008), chapter 1.
3. Ibid., 11–13.
4. John Hunter Boyle, China and Japan at War, 1937–1945: The Politics of Collaboration (Stanford, CA, 1972), 78–81.
5. MacKinnon, Wuhan 1938 , 20–28.
6. Ibid., 74–75.
7. Ibid., 68–69.
8. Marvin Williamsen, “The Military Dimension, 1937–1941,” in James C. Hsiung and Steven I. Levine, eds., China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945 (Armonk, NY, 1992), 139; MacKinnon, Wuhan 1938 , 34.
9. Stephen Mackinnon, “The Defense of the Central Yangtze,” in Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven, The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War (Stanford, CA, 2011), 194.
10. “Duiri kangzhan yu bendang qiantu” (“On the War of Resistance against Japan and the Future of this Party”), ZT (April 1, 1938), vol. 15, 197.
11. On Li Zongren and the role of Guangxi, see Graham Hutchings, “A Province at War: Guangxi During the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937–1945,” China Quarterly 108 (December 1986).
12. Chang Jui-te, “Chiang Kai-shek’s Coordination by Personal Directives,” in Stephen R. MacKinnon, Diana Lary, and Ezra Vogel, eds., China at War: Regions of China, 1937–1945 (Stanford, CA, 2007), 78–79.
13. Du Yi and Du Ying, eds., Huan wo heshan: Du Zhongyuan wenji [ Return Our Rivers and Mountains: The Collected Essays of Du Zhongyuan ] [hereafter DZY] (Shanghai, 1998), “Jiang taigong,” 273.
14. Ibid., 274.
15. Stephen Mackinnon, “Defense of the Central Yangtze,” 1919.
16. Hans J. van de Ven, War and Nationalism in China, 1925–1945 (London, 2003), 224.
17. Sheng Cheng, Taierzhuang jishi [ Taierzhuang Memoir ] (Beijing, 2007), 36.
18. Katharine W. Hand, “Diary,” April 8, 1938. DZY, “Jiang taigong,” 273.
19. Sheng Cheng, Taierzhuang jishi , 48–49, 236.
20. FRUS, 1938, vol. III (April 19, 1938), 154.
21. DBPO, series 2, vol. 21 (April 29, 1938), 744–746.
22. Van de Ven, War and Nationalism , 225; Williamsen, “The Military Dimension,” 140; MacKinnon, Wuhan 1938 , 35.
23. DZY, “‘Jang taigong’ wei jianji” [“Meeting ‘Duke Jiang’”] (April 6, 1938), 274.
24. Diana Lary, “A Ravaged Place: The Devastation of the Xuzhou Region, 1938,” in Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon, eds., Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Modern China (Vancouver, 2001), 102.
25. Ibid., 113–114.
26. “On Protracted War” (May 26 to June 3, 1938), MZD, vol. VI, 322.
     
    9. THE DEADLY RIVER
     
1. FRUS, 1938, vol. III (7 June 1938), 194.
2. Ibid. (July 19, 1938), 232–233, 236.
3. Ibid. (July 23, 1938), 234–235.
4. Stephen R. Mackinnon, Wuhan 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China (Berkeley, CA, 2008), 57.
5. No. 2 Historical Archives of China, ed., “Deguo zongguwen Fakenhaosen guanyu Zhongguo kangRi zhanlue zhi liang fen jianyishu” [“Two Documents with Suggestions on Policy for China’s War of Resistance from German General Adviser Falkenhausen”] (August 20, 1935), Minguo dang’an 2 (1991), 26.
6. Yet recent work has suggested that the French Army might have had a better chance of defeating the Germans in 1940 than was realized or admitted at the time. See Ernest R. May, Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France (New York, 2001).
7. Liang Changgen also argues that the blasting of the dikes was a turning point in terms of the Nationalist government’s attitude toward refugees and the need for the government to provide welfare provision for them. Liang Changgen, “Kangzhan qijian guomin zhengfu zai Huangfanqu de ziyuan zhenghe yu guojia