Abstract The first half of the 1930s saw between the Chinese and the German governments a close contact accompanied by the rapid development of the economic and trade relations between the two countries. This period can be termed the 'honeymoon' of the Sino-German relations, which was soon replaced by a different kind of bilateral relations in the following less than four years(1938-1941). It was suddenly reversed, quickly worsened and eventually broken. During the process of thischanging kind of bilateral relations, Germany was active while China passive. The reason why it was so is that Germ...
