Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China

ALTERNATE TITLE

Dictionnaire Biographique de la Chine Occupée

ACCESS

open access

URL

https://bdoc.enpchina.eu/

DESCRIPTION

Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (BDOC / Dictionnaire Biographique de la Chine Occupée) addresses a significant gap in scholarship on the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945). Remarkably, no dedicated biographical dictionary on this subject exists in Chinese, Japanese, or Western languages. BDOC elucidates the structure of the Japanese occupation state through biographical pathways of key figures including Japanese officials, Chinese collaborators, resistance leaders, and other historical actors. Each entry provides internal cross-references and hyperlinks to external resources including the Biographical Dictionary of the International Labor Movement ("Maitron"), Biographical Dictionary of Republican China ("Boorman"), and Historical Dictionary of Japan. The bilingual (French/English) database examines the complex web of actors involved in occupation governance, collaboration, resistance, and wartime society.

SOURCE LIST

ACLS Open Database Resource Guide

LAST MODIFIED

2026-01-16