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The Longer History of Imperial Incidents on the Yangtze

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2020

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Empire and ImperialismMilitary and WarfareForeign RelationsInterwar YearsWorld War II
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Take Three: The Bombing of the USS Panay
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Modern American History , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 87 - 91
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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1 Navy department's report of the bombing and sinking of the U.S.S. Panay, Dec. 24, 1937, file no. 11-33-02-04-023, 外交部檔案 [Foreign Ministry Files], 近史所檔案館 [Institute of Modern History Archives, hereafter IMHA], Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. At least twenty-seven were injured.

2 Note from the American ambassador in Tokyo to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dec. 25, 1937, File No. 11-33-02-04-023, IMHA; The ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State, Apr. 22, 1938, United States Department of State, in Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1938, The Far East Volume 4 (Washington, DC, 1938), 211–3Google Scholar.

3 See, for example, Perry, Hamilton Darby, The Panay Incident: Prelude to Pearl Harbor (Toronto, 1969)Google Scholar; Ted Robbins, “A Japanese Attack before Pearl Harbor,” NPR, Dec. 13, 2007, https://www.npr.org/transcripts/17110447?storyId=17110447 (accessed Dec. 5, 2019); Peifer, Douglas, Choosing War: Presidential Decisions in the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay Incidents (New York, 2016), 149–233Google Scholar; Johnsen, William T., The Origins of the Grand Alliance: Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor (Lexington, KY, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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5 Ibid.; 證明書 [Witness Statement], undated, signed by Li Ziqing (李子清), Lai Yinhe (賴銀和), Wang Qingyun (王慶雲), Zhou Changhai (周昌海), Fu Yingcheng (傅銀成), Zhang Guangjie (張光傑), and Zhang Chaolu (張朝祿), Oct. 24, 1933, file no. 11-33-02-06-013, 外交部檔案 [Foreign Ministry Files], IMHA.

6 計抄美潘南兵船浪沉炭船人損失價值單 [Statement of Damages from the Sinking of a Coal Junk by the U.S.S. Panay], Sept. 2, 1933, file no. 11-33-02-06-013, 外交部檔案 [Foreign Ministry Files], IMHA.

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8 Statement of Damages from the Sinking of a Coal Junk by the U.S.S. Panay, Sept. 2, 1933, file no. 11-33-02-06-013, 外交部檔案 [Foreign Ministry Files], IMHA.

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22 Chiang, China's Destiny, 80.

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