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Jindaishi yanjiu 3 (2009), 50.
11. CKSD (Box 41, folder 18), December 15, 1941.
12. CKSD, December 17, 1941.
13. Ibid., December 20, 1941.
14. Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941–1945 (Oxford, 1978), 189.
15. FRUS, 1942: China (January 7, 1942), 193. Thorne, Allies of a Kind , 181.
16. Thorne, Allies of a Kind , 183.
17. Hans J. van de Ven, War and Nationalism in China, 1925–1945 (London, 2003), 25.
18. Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder out of China (New York, 1946), 146.
19. Barbara W. Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945 (New York, 1971), 251.
20. Lloyd E. Eastman, “Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945,” in Eastman et al., The Nationalist Era in China, 1927–1949 (Cambridge, 1991), 145.
21. Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of India (Cambridge, 2002), 200.
22. Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Making of Modern China (Cambridge, MA, 2009), 194.
23. Metcalf and Metcalf, A Concise History of India , 201–202.
24. Guido Samarani, “Shaping the Future of Asia: Chiang Kai-shek, Nehru, and China-India Relations during the Second World War Period,” LSE working paper, http://www.ace.lu.se/images/Syd_och_sydostasienstudier/working_papers/Samarani.pdf .
25. CKSD (Box 47, folder 7), February 27, 1942.
26. CKSD, February 15, 1942.
27. Ibid., February 19, 1942.
28. B. K. Mishra, The Cripps Mission: An Appraisal (Delhi, 1982), 48.
29. “Gao Indu guomin shu” [“To the Indian People”], ZT, 289–292.
30. CKSD, February 21, 1942.
31. “Fangwen Indu de ganxiang yu duiyu Taipingyang zhanju de guancha” [“Feelings on Visiting India and Viewpoint on the Pacific War Situation”] (March 9, 1942), in Zongtong Jiang gong sixiang yanlun zongji [ Collection of the Thought and Speeches of President Chiang Kai-shek ], at www.chungcheng.org.tw/thought/class06/0019/0008.htm , 56.
32. Joseph W. Stilwell, ed. Theodore H. White, The Stilwell Papers (Beijing, 2003) [originally New York, 1948] [hereafter SP], 14 January 1942, 14.
33. Tuchman, Stilwell , 172.
34. Taylor, Generalissimo , 191.
35. NARA (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC) RG 493 (171 [3]).
36. Xu Wancheng, Chongqing Huaxu [ Chongqing Gossip ] (Shanghai, 1946) [hereafter CQHX], 7.
37. Graham Peck, Two Kinds of Time (Seattle, 2008) [originally published Boston, 1950], 384.
38. Taylor, Generalissimo , 194.
39. Charles F. Romanus and Riley Sunderland, China-Burma-India Theater: Time Runs Out in CBI (Washington, DC, 1959), 19.
40. Van de Ven, War and Nationalism , 23.
41. Ibid., 29.
42. SP, January 24, 1942, 26.
43. See Xu Guoqi, China and the Great War: China’s Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization (Cambridge, 2005). Thorne, Allies of a Kind , 187, 189 (regarding the British fear of Chinese nationalism).
44. Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies: Britain’s Asian Empire and the War with Japan (London, 2004), 156–166; Van de Ven, War and Nationalism , 30.
45. SP, March 6, 1942, 43.
46. Ibid., March 9, 1942, 44. Taylor, Generalissimo , 197. Van de Ven, War and Nationalism , 31.
47. Van de Ven, War and Nationalism , 26.
48. SP, March 14, 1942, 53.
49. Ibid., March 12, 1942, 51.
50. Ibid., March 19, 1942, 55.
51. Ibid., March 23, 1942, 59.
52. Ibid., March 24, 1942, 59–60.
53. Ibid., March 25–26, 1942, 60–61. Bayly and Harper, Forgotten Armies , 180, notes the long-lasting and devastating effects that this would have on the Burmese economy.
54. CKSD, March 29, 1942, cited in Yang Tianshi, Kangzhan yu Zhanhou Zhongguo [ China during the War of Resistance and the Postwar ] (Beijing, 2007), 386.
55. SP, April 1, 1942, 65–67.
56. White and Jacoby, Thunder , 147.
57. CKSD, April 8, 1942, cited in Yang Tianshi, Kangzhan yu Zhanhou Zhongguo [ China during the War of Resistance and the Postwar ] (Beijing, 2007), 387.
58. SP, April 1, 1942, 68.
59.