Author : Hsi-sheng Chi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009362354
Nationalist China at War
Hsi-sheng Chi
Nationalist China At War
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War and Nationalism in China, 1925-1945
Hans J. Van de Ven
Author : Hans J. Van de Ven
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : China
ISBN : 0415145716
War and Nationalism in China, 1925-1945 by Hans J. Van de Ven Pdf
Offers a new interpretation of the Chinese nationalists, placing their war of resistance against Japan in the context of their efforts to establish control over their own country and providing a critical reassessment of regional Allied Warfare.
War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945
Hans van de Ven
Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134759255
War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945 by Hans van de Ven Pdf
In 1937, the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek were leading the Chinese war effort against Japan and were lauded in the West for their efforts to transform China into an independent and modern nation; yet this image was quickly tarnished. The Nationalists were soon denounced as militarily incompetent, corrupt, and antidemocratic and Chiang Kaishek, the same. In this book, van de Ven investigates the myths and truths of Nationalist resistance including issues such as: the role of the US in East Asia during the Second World War the achievements of Chiang Kaishek as Nationalist leader the respective contributions of the Nationalists and the Communists to the defeat of Japan the consequences of the Europe First strategy for Asia. War and Nationalism in China offers a major new interpretation of the Chinese Nationalists, placing their war of resistance against Japan in the context of their prolonged efforts to establish control over their own country and providing a critical reassessment of Allied Warfare in the region. This groundbreaking volume will interest students and researchers of Chinese History and Warfare.
General He Yingqin
Peter Worthing
Author : Peter Worthing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107144637
General He Yingqin by Peter Worthing Pdf
A revisionist study of General He Yingqin, one of the most important, yet misunderstood, figures in China's Nationalist period.
Seeds of Destruction
Lloyd E. Eastman
Author : Lloyd E. Eastman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0804711917
Seeds of Destruction by Lloyd E. Eastman Pdf
China at War
Hans van de Ven
Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674983502
China at War by Hans van de Ven Pdf
China’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time—from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 until the close of the Korean War in 1953—across such vast territory. As Hans van de Ven explains, the greatest puzzles lie in understanding China’s simultaneous external and internal wars. Much is at stake, politically, in how this story is told. Today in its official history and public commemorations, the People’s Republic asserts Chinese unity against Japan during World War II. But this overwrites the era’s stark divisions between Communists and Nationalists, increasingly erasing the civil war from memory. Van de Ven argues that the war with Japan, the civil war, and its aftermath were in fact of a piece—a singular process of conflict and political change. Reintegrating the Communist uprising with the Sino-Japanese War, he shows how the Communists took advantage of wartime to increase their appeal, how fissures between the Nationalists and Communists affected anti-Japanese resistance, and how the fractious coalition fostered conditions for revolution. In the process, the Chinese invented an influential paradigm of war, wherein the Clausewitzian model of total war between well-defined interstate enemies gave way to murky campaigns of national liberation involving diverse domestic and outside belligerents. This history disappears when the realities of China’s mid-century conflicts are stripped from public view. China at War recovers them.
China’s Good War
Rana Mitter
Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674984264
China’s Good War by Rana Mitter Pdf
Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the “victory”—a key foundation of China’s rising nationalism. For most of its history, the People’s Republic of China discouraged public discussion of the war against Japan. It was an experience of victimization—and one that saw Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek fighting for the same goals. But now, as China grows more powerful, the meaning of the war is changing. Rana Mitter argues that China’s reassessment of the war years is central to its newfound confidence abroad and to mounting nationalism at home. China’s Good War begins with the academics who shepherded the once-taboo subject into wider discourse. Encouraged by reforms under Deng Xiaoping, they researched the Guomindang war effort, collaboration with the Japanese, and China’s role in forming the post-1945 global order. But interest in the war would not stay confined to scholarly journals. Today public sites of memory—including museums, movies and television shows, street art, popular writing, and social media—define the war as a founding myth for an ascendant China. Wartime China emerges as victor rather than victim. The shifting story has nurtured a number of new views. One rehabilitates Chiang Kai-shek’s war efforts, minimizing the bloody conflicts between him and Mao and aiming to heal the wounds of the Cultural Revolution. Another narrative positions Beijing as creator and protector of the international order that emerged from the war—an order, China argues, under threat today largely from the United States. China’s radical reassessment of its collective memory of the war has created a new foundation for a people destined to shape the world.
The Sino-American Alliance
John W. Garver
Author : John W. Garver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317454571
The Sino-American Alliance by John W. Garver Pdf
This study provides an analysis of the role the United States alliance with Nationalist China played in US strategy to contain first the Sino-Soviet alliance and then China during the 1950s and 1960s.
China’s Good War
Rana Mitter
Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674249554
China’s Good War by Rana Mitter Pdf
A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history.” —Foreign Affairs “A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in conceptualizations about the past and the present in contemporary China.” —Peter Frankopan, The Spectator For most of its history, China frowned on public discussion of the war against Japan. But as the country has grown more powerful, a wide-ranging reassessment of the war years has been central to new confidence abroad and mounting nationalism at home. Encouraged by reforms under Deng Xiaoping, Chinese scholars began to examine the long-taboo Guomindang war effort, and to investigate collaboration with the Japanese and China’s role in the post-war global order. Today museums, television shows, magazines, and social media present the war as a founding myth for an ascendant China that emerges as victor rather than victim. One narrative positions Beijing as creator and protector of the international order—a virtuous system that many in China now believe to be under threat from the United States. China’s radical reassessment of its own past is a new founding myth for a nation that sees itself as destined to shape the world. “A detailed and fascinating account of how the Chinese leadership’s strategy has evolved across eras...At its most interesting when probing Beijing’s motives for undertaking such an ambitious retooling of its past.” —Wall Street Journal “The range of evidence that Mitter marshals is impressive. The argument he makes about war, memory, and the international order is...original.” —The Economist
Accidental State
Hsiao-ting Lin
Author : Hsiao-ting Lin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674969629
Accidental State by Hsiao-ting Lin Pdf
Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the Two Chinas dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Hsiao-ting Lin challenges this conventional narrative, showing the many ways the ad hoc creation of this not fully sovereign state was accidental and serendipitous.
China's Bitter Victory
James C. Hsiung
Author : James C. Hsiung
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0765636328
China's Bitter Victory by James C. Hsiung Pdf
"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of battles and conferences, the book portrays the significant impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs, and science. For within the overriding struggle for national survival, the competition for political goals continued. China ultimately triumphed, but at a price of between 15 and 20 million lives and vast destruction of property and resources. And China's bitter victory brought new trials for the Chinese people in the form of civil war and revolution. This book tells the story of China during a crucial period pregnant with consequences not only for China but also for Asia and the world as well. Addressed to students, scholars, and general readers, the book aims to fill a gap in the existing literature on modern Chinese history and on World War II.
China at War
Hans J. Van de Ven
Author : Hans J. Van de Ven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0674919521
China at War by Hans J. Van de Ven Pdf
China's mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time--from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 until the close of the Korean War in 1953--across such vast territory. As Hans van de Ven explains, the greatest puzzles lie in understanding China's simultaneous external and internal wars. Much is at stake, politically, in how this story is told. Today in its official history and public commemorations, the People's Republic asserts Chinese unity against Japan during World War II. But this overwrites the era's stark divisions between Communists and Nationalists, increasingly erasing the civil war from memory. Van de Ven argues that the war with Japan, the civil war, and its aftermath were in fact of a piece--a singular process of conflict and political change. Reintegrating the Communist uprising with the Sino-Japanese War, he shows how the Communists took advantage of wartime to increase their appeal, how fissures between the Nationalists and Communists affected anti-Japanese resistance, and how the fractious coalition fostered conditions for revolution. In the process, the Chinese invented an influential paradigm of war, wherein the Clausewitzian model of total war between well-defined interstate enemies gave way to murky campaigns of national liberation involving diverse domestic and outside belligerents. This history disappears when the realities of China's mid-century conflicts are stripped from public view. China at War recovers them.--
From War to Nationalism
Arthur Waldron
Author : Arthur Waldron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 052152332X
From War to Nationalism by Arthur Waldron Pdf
This book investigates the 'warlord' period in China, focusing on the pivotal year 1924.
Seeds of Destruction
Lloyd E. Eastman
Author : Lloyd E. Eastman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0804741867
Seeds of Destruction by Lloyd E. Eastman Pdf
The question "Who lost China?" has provoked political vituperation and academic controversy ever since the Chinese Communists drove the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai-shek off the mainland in 1949. In this study based on a wide array of hitherto unused documentary sources, the author delves deeply into the inner workings of the Nationalist regime and concludes that the Nationalists collapsed largely as a result of their own failings. Most strikingly, he uses the records and memoirs of the Nationalists themselves to document the weaknesses of the Nationalist rule. For even Chiang Kai-shek said of the Kuomintang on the eve of its final defeat in 1949, "This kind of party should long ago have been destroyed and swept away!" To illuminate the factors that contributed to its ultimate defeat, the author examines the Nationalist government during the period 1937-1949 from several different perspectives. He carefully scrutinizes the relationship between the central and provincial governments, the plight of the tax-burdened peasantry in the Nationalist-held areas, the intraparty politics of the regime as expressed in the Youth Corps and the reformist Ko-hsin Movement, the deficiencies of the army during the wars against Japan and the Communists, the failure of the Gold Yüan currency reform of late 1948, and finally, Chiang Kai-shek's own assessment of his army and the civilian branches of his regime during the final phases of the war.
China's Bitter Victory
James C. Hsiung,Steven I. Levine
Author : James C. Hsiung,Steven I. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315287676
China's Bitter Victory by James C. Hsiung,Steven I. Levine Pdf
"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of battles and conferences, the book portrays the significant impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs, and science. For within the overriding struggle for national survival, the competition for political goals continued. China ultimately triumphed, but at a price of between 15 and 20 million lives and vast destruction of property and resources. And China's bitter victory brought new trials for the Chinese people in the form of civil war and revolution. This book tells the story of China during a crucial period pregnant with consequences not only for China but also for Asia and the world as well. Addressed to students, scholars, and general readers, the book aims to fill a gap in the existing literature on modern Chinese history and on World War II.