Chinese Boycotts versus Japanese Bombs: The Failure of China's "Revolutionary Diplomacy," 1931-32

Chinese Boycotts versus Japanese Bombs highlights economic competition as a key to understanding how China and Japan, leading trade partners, slipped toward war in the early 1930s. It describes and evaluates the Nationalist Chinese government's “Revolutionary Diplomacy” — its own brand of foreign policy toward Japan in 1931-32. This approach, which utilized popular boycotts, strikes, and demonstrations, was both innovative and a reflection of Chinas profound anger toward Japan, brought abou...