Re: [ORE] Information on China of the 30s and 40s?

Rape of Nanking maybe be a good reference for Godlike. As character start to manifest power in stressful situation.

For what life maybe like for Chinese under Japanese occupation. The movie Ip Man's second half give u some idea.

Chunkai Kevin Wang

On Jul 26, 2012, at 23:10, J Unrau <hungryj@gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a book of journalism from the period that I find interesting
> for this kind of stuff called: The Unknown War: North China 1937-1945
> by Michael Lindsay. I have no idea how accessible that book is in
> North America (my copy comes from Beijing).
>
> In my experience a lot of the books about the Chinese civil war have
> quite a bit of decent information about the war and how the
> Nationalist/Communist infighting affected and was affected by the
> fighting. I haven't seen many reference books though.
>
> Good luck!
>
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> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Daniel Stack <dstack1776@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well right now it's more of an idea floating in my brain, though next ORE related game I'm giving serious thought to using that period.
>>
>> Any good reference books on the period? There's a ton of information specifically on the American presence but aside from that I've not been able to find too much.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Matt <moeheid@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep,
>>>
>>> Another factor as you get deeper into the 40s was the extreme poverty, and later the ill conceived maoist propaganda that drove people to "drive all the weakness" out of the country by killing all the small birds, which destroyed the only natural locust predators, which resulted in a famine... The list goes on. Industrialization programs where farmers tore up existing roads for cobblestones that -might- have iron.
>>>
>>> You might be able to run a "fun" game if you downplay a lot of those elements but that time in China wasn't pleasant outside Shanghai and XiangGang.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>> -Matt Conlon
>>>
>>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Chunkai Wang <chunkai.kevin.wang@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> Basically China was very chaotic during this period.
>>>
>>> (Disclaimer: Just for universal ease of reading, Chinese term will be in Han Yu Ping Ying method of spelling which is more universally accepted these days.)
>>>
>>> After China was re-formed as Republic in name, there was no central army for the Kuomingtang, literally means People's Party of China. There were a number of warlord, or Jun-fa, who are actually in charge and control of the China at that point.
>>>
>>> Eventually Kuomingtang founded Huang-Pu Military school to train their own army. With cooperation from some of the Jun-fa, Kuomingtang eventuall managed to unify China under one central authority.
>>>
>>> Than, Japanese started to invade China. Basically the Kuomingtang's military adapted the idea "Use space to exchange time." Move the capital to Chongqing, and trying to drain as much Japanese Army's power int China as possible. Japanese Army also realize it was impossible to hold China on their own, and they started to form Chinese based army unit as well. But those some of those army unit are lead by some what opportunitist Chinese, and they do have contact with Kuomingtang and they may actually defect if there is such a time that Kuomingtang started to fight back instead of retreat.
>>>
>>> Also, the communist party was seperated from Kuomingtang at one point, and became their own power. So Kuomingtang was not only fighting Japanese, they were also fighting the Communist party as well.
>>>
>>> This is just on top of my head...
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Stack <dstack1776@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've been flipping through the new Godlike PDF and it's got me thinking of a Godlike or gritty Wild Talents game set in China of that period, inspired by things like Blacksheep Squadron or Terry and the Pirates. This isn't quite a system question but I figure there's got to be some people with expertise on the period, given Godlike being set then. Anyone have any favorites to nominate on what China was like during that era, with extra credit for other areas of Asia like Burma, Singapore, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
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