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1938.
29. Ibid., October 30, 1938.
30. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 195–199.
31. ZFHR, December 19, 1938.
32. GZW, 29–30.
33. Ibid., 30.
34. ZFHR, December 20, 1938.
35. ZFHR, December 21 and 26, 1938.
36. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 212–213.
37. CKSD (Box 40, Folder 2), December 21, 1938.
38. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 213.
39. Pei-kai Cheng and Michael Lestz with Jonathan D. Spence, “Generalissimo Chiang Assails Prince Konoye’s Statement,” in The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection (New York, 1999), 321.
40. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 223–224.
41. ZFHR, December 27, 29, and 31, 1938.
     
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1. Ye Chao, “Wannan shibian jingguo de huigu” [“Looking back on my Experiences during the Wannan Incident”], Anhui wenshi ziliao , vol. 6 (telegram from 26 December 1940), 5.
2. Hans J. van de Ven, War and Nationalism in China, 1925–1945 (London, 2003), 237–239.
3. Ibid., 240–246.
4. Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941–1945 (Oxford, 1978), 52.
5. John Garver, “China’s Wartime Diplomacy,” in James C. Hsiung and Steven I. Levine, eds., China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945 (Armonk, NY, 1992), 10–11.
6. Ibid., 13.
7. For the most comprehensive account of this campaign, see the monumental book by Alvin D. Coox, Nomonhan: Japan against Russia, 1939 (Stanford, CA, 1985).
8. Garver, “China’s Wartime Diplomacy,” 16.
9. John Hunter Boyle, China and Japan at War, 1937–1945: The Politics of Collaboration (Stanford, CA, 1972), 243–246.
10. Ibid., 246.
11. Ibid., chapter 13.
12. GZW, 74–75.
13. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 279.
14. ZFHR, January 13, 1940, 230.
15. Ibid., January 26, 1940, 237.
16. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 282–285.
17. The newspaper Zhonghua ribao [hereafter ZHRB], March 30, 1940.
18. ZFHR, March 30, 1940, March 31, 1940, 272–273.
19. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 304.
20. FRUS, 1940, vol. IV (February 17, 1940), 287.
21. Garver, “China’s Wartime Diplomacy,” 8–9.
22. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 303.
23. ZFHR, May 13, 1940, 280.
24. Huang Meizhen and Yang Hanqing, “Nationalist China’s Negotiating Position during the Stalemate, 1938–1945,” in David P. Barrett and Larry N. Shyu, Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932–1945: The Limits of Accommodation (Stanford, CA, 2001), 65.
25. FRUS, 1940, vol. IV (January 15, 1940), 263.
26. Huang and Yang, “Nationalist China’s Negotiating Position,” 61.
27. Boyle, China and Japan at War , 303–305; Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Making of Modern China (Cambridge, MA, 2009), 174–175.
28. “Persist in Long-term Cooperation between the Guomindang and the Communist Party,” MZD, vol. VI, 153.
29. Taylor, Generalissimo , 166–167.
30. Lloyd E. Eastman, “Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945,” in Lloyd E. Eastman et al., The Nationalist Era in China, 1927–1949 (Cambridge, 1991), 152–160.
31. Lyman P. Van Slyke, “The Chinese Communist Movement during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945,” in Eastman et al., The Nationalist Era in China, 1927–1949 , 253.
32. Ibid., 254–255.
33. Ibid., 244–245.
34. Wang Jianguo, “Gu Zhutong yu Wannan shibian” [“Gu Zhutong and the Wannan Incident”], KangRi zhanzheng yanjiu 3 (1993), 197. Gregor Benton, New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance Along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938–1941 (Berkeley, CA, 1999), 515–516.
35. For instance, “It is best that the forces south of the river move to southern Jiangsu in groups” (December 30, 1940), and “Smash the Guomindang’s offensive and bring about a change for the better in the situation” (December 31, 1940), MZD, vol. 6, 610, 611. Benton, New Fourth Army , 513.
36. “Mao Zedong and Zhu De to Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying concerning the negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek on the New Fourth Army’s route for moving