Kelly A. Hammond. China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II.

Abstract

Over the last few years, scholars have shown a rapidly growing interest in the global history of the Second World War. Going beyond traditional military histories of the “Desert War,” the “Pacific War,” or the “Jungle War” in Southeast Asia, they have begun to look at the impact of the conflict on the civilians in these war zones, the military deployment of millions of colonial soldiers, and the role of anti-imperial movements. At the same time, they have paid greater attention to South-South relations during the war years. An important part of this body of literature form studies of Japan’s conquest and occupation of East and Southeast Asia. These studies have exposed the brutality of Japanese rule as well as Tokyo’s efforts to win over populations across the continent, from Manchuria in the north to the Dutch East Indies in the south, using pan-Asian, anti-imperialist, and anti-Soviet propaganda. Works on...