Chronology of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Hans van de Ven and Edward J. Drea -- An overview of major military campaigns during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven -- The dragon's seed : origins of the war / Mark R. Peattie -- The Nationalist Army on the eve of the war / Chang Jui-te -- The Japanese Army on the eve of the war / Edward J. Drea -- Chiang Kai-shek and the battles of Shanghai and Nanjing / Yang Tianshi -- Japanese operations from July to December 1937 / Hattori Satoshi with Edward J. Drea -- The defense of the Central Yangtze / Stephen MacKinnon -- The Japanese Eleventh Army in Central China, 1938-1941 / Tobe Ryoichi -- The Japanese air campaigns in China, 1937-1945 / Hagiwara Mitsuru -- The great bombing of Chongqing and the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Edna Tow -- China's quest for foreign military aid / Zhang Baijia -- Nationalist and communist guerrilla warfare in North China / Yang Kuisong -- Japanese combat morale : a case study of the Thirty-Seventh Division / Kawano Hitoshi -- Japanese operations in Yunnan and North Burma / Asano Toyomi -- Chinese operations in Yunnan and Central Burma / Zang Yunhu -- The Ichigo offensive / Hara Takeshi -- The Battle of Hunan and the Chinese military's response to Operation Ichigo / Wang Qisheng -- The strategic corrrelation between the Sino-Japanese and Pacific wars / Tohmatsu Haruo -- The Sino-Japanese War in history / Hans van de Ven -- The Sino-Japanese War in the context of world history / Ronald Spector