Negotiating for Alliance Republican China's Relations with National Socialist Germany and the United States, 1937-1941

Download or read book Negotiating for Alliance Republican China's Relations with National Socialist Germany and the United States, 1937-1941 written by Hao Chen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Until the late 1930s, National Socialist Germany was a close ally to the Republic of China (or Republican China, ROC). From 1937 to 1941, the Sino-German alliance progressively collapsed against the background of Sino-Japanese War. On the one hand, the ROC attempted hardly to recover its partnership with Germany. On the other hand, it was forced to search for a new ally which could help in resisting Japanese aggression. Ultimately, after the Pearl Harbour attack on December 1941, China tied itself to the United States, an ally which political system was more different from the Guomindang (GMD, Chinese Nationalist Party) compared to Germany. My thesis analyzes China's parallel relationships with both Germany and the United States between 1937 and 1941, especially the interplays of domestic politics and foreign relations behind these relationships. ROC's negotiation with both countries for alliance profoundly reshaped the nature of China as a nation-state, the nature of the GMD government as a nationalistic authoritarian regime, and the nature of the Second World War as the conflict of democracy versus totalitarianism." --