China at War: The Second Sino-Japanese Conflict Ignites Asia

In 1937, a war that many leaders expected to localise instead lengthened into a struggle that neither side could cleanly end, and that the region could not contain. China at War treats the Second Sino-Japanese conflict as the engine room of a wider Asian transformation: a prolonged contest in which battlefield operations, governance choices, and diplomatic alignments fused into a single system. The question is not only why the fighting spread, but how duration itself changed what each actor...