Conquest of China / Peter Lorge -- Debates in the field during Bayan's campaigns against Southern Song China, 1274-1276 / David Curtis Wright -- As close as lips and teeth : debating the Ming intervention in Korea / Kenneth M. Swope -- To war or not to war : decisions for war in late imperial China, 1870s-1900 / David Pong -- Debating war in China : the decision to go to war, July-August 1937 / Parks M. Coble
Summary
This work offers the first sustained discussion of the debates that took place within Chinese governments over whether or not, and why, to wage war