pt. 1. State formation: Japan and Guomindang efforts at nationwide coordination -- The structures and ideologies of conquest / John W. Dower -- Occupation state building / Timothy Brook -- The Koa-in / Kubo Toru -- Chiang Kai-shek's coordination by personal directives / Chang Jui-te --pt. 2. The early occupied area -- Taiwan in wartime / Shao Minghuang -- The penetration of Manzhouguo rule in Manchuria / Tsukase Susumu -- The organization and grassroots structure of the Manzhouguo regime / Xie Xueshi -- The inner Mongolian "United Autonomous Government" / Lu Minghui -- pt. 3. The later occupied areas -- Food shortage and Japanese grain extraction in Henan / Odoric Y. K. Wou -- Labor conscription in north China, 1941-1945 / Ju Zhifen -- Japan's exploitative labor system in Qingdao, 1933-1945 / Zhuang Jianping -- pt. 4. Unoccupied or partially cccupied areas -- Commerce in wartime : the Jinjiluyu base area / Wei Hongyun -- Occupied Shanghai : the struggle between Chinese and western Medicine / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- The Guomindang regions of Jiangxi / Peter Merker -- One province's experience of war : Guangxi, 1937-1945 / Diana Lary -- Conclusion: Wartime China / Stephen R. MacKinnon.