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Donald A. Jordan. China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2001. pp. xvi, 309. $65.00.
Anger over a massacre of Chinese living in Japanese-controlled Korea during the summer of 1931 resulted in an anti-Japanese boycott throughout China but particularly in Shanghai, where the largest concentration of Japanese civilians lived. The boycott spread to Manchuria, where it incited the Japanese military to implement its plan to occupy the province. On the night of September 18, Japanese soldiers set off explosives along the Southern Manchurian Railroad near the city of Mukden. A skirmish between Chinese and Japanese soldiers followed, resulting in the order for a full-scale attack by Japanese military commanders. Chinese forces retreated south of the Great Wall and, by year's end, Manchuria was under Japanese control. These events caused tensions to mount between Japanese residing in Shanghai and Chinese citizens of the city. The crisis deepened as the Japanese angrily reacted to the boycott, which they claimed threatened not only their economic interests but their lives as well. The situation deteriorated, and on the night of January 28, 1932, Japanese marines went ashore and raided the Chinese-controlled Zhabei district of the city—ostensibly to rescue Japanese citizens but really to punish the Chinese for the boycott. What followed were thirty-three days of fighting known as the Shanghai War of 1932.	1
It is these thirty-three days that form the core of Donald A. Jordan's ground-breaking case study. Working from an impressive collection of Chinese, Japanese, and English-language sources, Jordan meticulously relates the events of what—until this work—has been seen as a minor incident in the road to the Anti-Japanese War (1937–1945). He concludes that this small, localized war was more than just a preview of what was to come; it irrevocably changed China, Japan, and modern warfare.	. . .

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