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236. China and World War II (Part 2)
The Rest Is History
The Story of China's World War Two Resistance
The one thing that chinese propaganda could not do in the mainland for years and years was give any sort of positive mention to chang kaishek at all. It wasn't till the eighties, after the war was over, that things like overtures to tiwan were made. And a kind of weariness with cultural revolution, ideology and a desire for a broader patriotism meant that the nationas story was brought back into it. The reconciliation between these rival memories of who had been fighting world war found a resting place, a meeting place, in terms of a shared historical memory. Your book, china's war with japan is, in absolute definitive, masterly root of it
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