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36th Annual Nimitz Symposium - 2023 | Dr Xiaobing Li, Guest Speaker

https://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/ From 1931 to 1945, Japan occupied much of northern and east-central China through military conquest. After seizing Manchuria in 1931, the Japanese Imperial Army went on in 1937 to occupy Beijing, attack Shanghai and seized Nanjing. The price in Chinese lives for resisting Japanese aggression was very high. The number of estimated deaths among the Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist forces was 2.4 million, among Communist forces, 600,000, and among civilians 10 million. The Japanese occupation was marked by its atrocities against civilians, and the populace later critiqued the dedication of Chinese political factions to resist the Japanese invasion. There was substantial cultural, social and economic devastation which impacted China for decades. All of this culminated in what many Chinese consider the “Century of Humiliation” and led to creation of a new China. The war memory revived Chinese nationalism and created a politicalized citizenry that would support a Chinese-led East Asian order and Beijing’s aggressive foreign policy in the region. Speaker Biography: Dr. Xiaobing Li is professor of history and the Don Betz Endowed Chair in International Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). He also serves as adjunct professor at Norwich University and has delivered lectures at the Summer Seminar in Military History at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His research interests include World War II, Cold War, and modern Chinese military history. Born in Beijing, China, he served in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the early 1970s. He earned his BA in 1982 from Nankai University and both his MA and PhD in history from Carnegie Mellon University. Among Li’s many published books, his most recent include China’s New Navy (Naval Institute Press, 2023), Sino-American Relations: A New Cold War (first co-editor, Amsterdam University Press, 2022), and The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 2020). From the National Museum of the Pacific War, thank you to our guest presenters for providing the content for this program. Any research, historical information, and opinions expressed are their own. This is a recording from the National Museum of the Pacific War. Copyright 2023. For more videos, webinars and our mission please visit us online: https://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/