Abbreviations are given below for source references found in more than one chapter:
CKSD: Chiang Kai-shek diary
CQA: Chongqing Municipal Archive
CQDH: Southwestern Normal University Chongqing Bombing Research Centre et al. ed., Chongqing da hongzha [The Great Chongqing Bombings] (Chongqing, 2002)
CQHX: Xu Wancheng, Chongqing Huaxu [Chongqing Gossip] (Shanghai, 1946)
DBPO: Documents on British Policy Overseas
DZY: Du Yi and Du Ying, eds., Huan wo heshan: Du Zhongyuan wenji [Return our Rivers and Mountains: The Collected Essays of Du Zhongyuan] (Shanghai, 1998)
FRUS: Foreign Relations of the United States
GZW: Gao Zongwu, Gao Zongwu huiyilu [The Memoirs of Gao Zongwu] (Beijing, 2009)
MSW: Mao Zedong, Selected Works, vol. Ill (Beijing, 1967)
MZD: Stuart R. Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 191Z-1949, 7 vols. (Armonk, NY, 1992-)
NARA: National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC
NCH: North-China Herald
PVD: Peter Vladimirov, The Vladimirov Diaries: Yenan, 1942-1945 (New York, 1975)
QDHF: Yang Lin et al., Qu da houfang: Zhongguo kangzhan neiqian shilu [Going to the Interior: True Stories of the Journey Inland during the War of Resistance] (Shanghai, 2005)
SMA: Shanghai Municipal Archive
SP: Joseph W. Stilwell, ed. Theodore H. White, The Stilwell Papers (Beijing, 2003) [originally New York, 1948]
UNA; United Nations Archives, New York
ZFHR: Cai Dejin, ed., Zhou Fohai riji [Zhou Fohai’s Diary], z vols. (Beijing, 1986)
ZT: Qin Shaoyi, ed., Xian zongtong Jianggong sixiang lun zongji [The Thought and Speeches of President Chiang Kai-shek] (Taipei, 1984)