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19 days agoJapan had already invaded China once in 1931, and Zhang Zhizhong was a hero but was literally demanded to stand down and lost reputation in the eyes of the population temporarily for this. This accusation is so incredibly stupid that I could not articulate how insanely dumb it is. I want to tear my eyes out with every line of this I read as my abdominal organs twist themselves into a knot at the sheer cringe. These authors have less understanding of 1930s Chinese politics than a historytuber sourcing non-cited from wikipedia and I sincerely hope they never write a book about this topic ever, ever again.
There’s an incredibly good history of the Chinese warlord era that leads up to this 1931-1937 period, Beiyang Junfa Shi, ‘History of the Beiyang Warlords’. Was written by a guy who studied the archives for half a century. Idk if it’s available in english though.
edit: found it on Anna’s but it’s in Chinese. I’m sure there’s plenty of translation software that might work, although it is quite a long read, so I wouldn’t go too much into it unless you’re really interested in this topic. https://annas-archive.org/md5/049b77615925905ac7790b909cbed0c2