The Demoralization of Free China, 1943-1944
* “The Honan Famine” in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby Thunder out of China, 166-178
* “Doomed Men, The Chinese Army” in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby Thunder out of China, 132-141
- Finish Cold Nights
April 6: Film: “China in War and Revolution”
* Drafted to the Kobe Shipyards”, “the War Effort” in Under the Black Umbrella, 123-138
* “Volunteer and “Human Torpedo” Japan at War, 306-319
- Factories of Death, 239-311
The Japanese Home Front and the Struggle Over Ending the War
*“Thank God for the Atom Bomb” in Paul Fussell, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays, 1-28
-Start Hiroshima
The Atomic Bomb and the Surrender of Japan
*“Mansei” in Under the Black Umbrella, 139-147
*“Shattered Lives” in John Dower Embracing Defeat 48-64
*“Reversals of Fortune” in Japan at War, 407-419
*Matthew Allen, “Wolves at the Back Door: Remembering the Kumejima Massacres,” in Islands of Discontent, 39-64
- Continue reading Hiroshima
Surrender, Guilt and the American Occupation of Japan
- Finish Hiroshima
Ending One War and Beginning Another in East Asia
* Hideo Kobayashi, “The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan’s Wartime Empire” in Japan’s Wartime Empire, 324-334
- Factories of Death, 313-361
*“Victory as Defeat” in Yeh Wen-hsin, ed. Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press) 2000
*“Victory and Civil War” in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder Out of China, 279-297