David M. Gordon - The China-Japan War, 1931-1945 - The Journal of Military History 70:1 The Journal of Military History 70.1 (2006) 137-182 The China-Japan War, 1931–1945 David M. Gordon War, Sun Tzu tells us, "is of vital importance to the state, being the arena in which life or death is decided and the pathway to survival or ruination." The Japanese invasion on 7 July 1937 put the Chinese Republic in mortal danger. In the end, the Republic prevailed. But China was devastated. The war also made possible a successful Communist revolution that destroyed traditional society. By 1945, Japan, too, was almost destroyed. Its empire lost and its political structure remade by its American conquerors, the country would eventually enter a new period of peaceful economic development. Both nations were fundamentally transformed by the conflict. The China-Japan war, the catalyst of these changes, is arguably the most important event in the history of East Asia in the twentieth century. This essay surveys much of the literature on that war, published since the 1970s, from its origins to its end. The war began in 1937. However, the events leading to it started almost twenty years earlier. Marius Jansen describes how, until the end of the First World War in 1918, Japan had participated with other nations in the division of China into spheres of influence. Unfortunately, the Japanese were unable to adjust to the postwar anti-imperialist policies of the Soviet Union-------------------------上面是网络上找的，如果你需要更加详细的，可以查看下面的连接：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
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