Jeffrey Wasserstrom joins Micah to discuss Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder Out of China (William Sloane Assoc., 1946).

Interested listeners should take a look at Jeffrey Wasserstrom's Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020). Here's a bibliography of the other books and articles that we mentioned in the episode: 

Stephen R. MacKinnon and Oris Friesen. China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s. University of California Press, 1987.

Lloyd E. Eastman, Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937-1949. Stanford University Press, 1984.

Rana Mitter, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Hans J. van de Ven, War and Nationalism in China, 1925-1945. RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Diana Lary, The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Rebecca Nedostup, “Burying, Repatriating, and Leaving the Dead in Wartime and Postwar China and Taiwan, 1937-1955,” Journal of Chinese History 1:1 (2017), 111-139.

Nicole E. Barnes, Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945. University of California Press, 2018.

Aaron W. Moore, Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire. Harvard University Press, 2013.

Graham Peck, Two Kinds of Time. Houghton Mifflin, 1950.

Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. Spiegel & Grau, 2008.

Mike Chinoy, Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic. Columbia University Press, 2023.

Frederic Wakeman, Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service. University of California Press, 2003.

John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China. Henry Holt, 2006.

Craig Calhoun, Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China. University of California Press, 1994.

Bill Lascher, Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific. William Morrow, 2016.

Suzanne Pepper, Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945-1949. University of California Press, 1978.

Parks Coble, China's War Reporters. Harvard University Press, 2015.