Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong Sir, I wish to congratulate Bill James on his excellent review (News Weekly, February 1, 2014) of Rana Mitter’s book, China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945, which goes a long way to debunking the falsehoods surrounding Mao Zedong and his Communists. Japan had regarded occupied Manchuria as its own territory, but did not enter China proper until the Marco Polo Bridge incident in 1937. This bridge is on the south-western outskirts of Beijing. From there, t…
