The Sian Incident

Author : Tien-wei Wu
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780892640263

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The Sian Incident by Tien-wei Wu Pdf

When Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Sian in the fall of 1936 and laid plans for launching his last campaign against the Red Army with an expectation of exterminating it in a month, he badly misjudged the mood of the Tungpei (Northeast) Army and more so its leader, Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the Young Marshal. Refusing to fight the Communists, Chang with the loyal support of his officers staged a coup d’état by kidnapping Chiang Kai-shek for two weeks at Sian. Almost forty years after the melodrama was over, the Sian Incident still absorbs much attention from both Chinese and Western scholars as well as the reading public. The Sian Incident attempts to bring together whatever information has been thus far gleaned about the subject, and to cover all aspects and controversies involved in it. [1, xi, xii]

Author : Suebsaeng Promboon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : WISC:89092495050

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The Sian Incident by Suebsaeng Promboon Pdf

Author : Helen Foster Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105072202877

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Notes on the Sian Incident, 1936 by Helen Foster Snow Pdf

Author : Chin-yen Fang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041069498

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The Sian Incident by Chin-yen Fang Pdf

Author : Peter Worthing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107144637

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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.

Author : Ruth Price
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195141894

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The Lives of Agnes Smedley by Ruth Price Pdf

Drawing on 15 years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the 20th century's most fascinating women.

Author : Parks M. Coble
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684172733

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Facing Japan by Parks M. Coble Pdf

In "Facing Japan", Parks M. Coble focuses on how events that took place during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria - from 1931 until war erupted in 1937 - affected the Chinese goverment and public opinion. Both in the places where incidents occurred and in other centres of power, Japanese threats, attacks, and economic demands pressed Nationalist China relentlessly and aroused popular indignation. Throughout most of the period, Chiang kai-Shek was trying to wrest control of China from all domestic rivals. Aware that his army was inferior to Japan's, his Nationalist government repeatedly made concessions in response to Japanese provocations. Chiang busied himself with anti-Communist campaigns, leaving others to take public responsibility for his unpopular appeasement policies. For such crises as the Mukden Incident and the Japanese attack on Shanghai, Coble examines the tension that Chiang's policy caused within the Kuomintang, and the alternatives put forward by other major leaders both inside and outside the government. To further explore the political complexities of the day, Coble traces the actions of regional leaders and their constantly changing relations to the central government in Nanking, reviews editorials of various newspapers, and chronicles the actions of student organizations and patriotic associations.

Author : Haipeng Zhai, Jinyi Zhang
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783838214412

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A Brief Modern Chinese History by Haipeng Zhai, Jinyi Zhang Pdf

This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late. Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai provide us with a history of China's struggle for national independence and prosperity, reflecting the “humiliation” in the “sinking” period and the “struggle” during the “rising” period. After the Japanese aggressions against China had caused more damage to China than all previous invasions, Chinese society not only avoided the continued "sinking", but also laid the foundation for China's modernization and the recent success story to the present day.

Author : S. Bernard Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520409354

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Season of High Adventure by S. Bernard Thomas Pdf

In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships with China's emerging revolutionary leaders. His 1938 classic, Red Star over China, strongly influenced American views of the Chinese Communists and is still in print nearly sixty years later. This biography breaks fresh ground with its unique and extensive use of Snow's diaries of over forty years. These writings convey Snow's private hopes and fears, his moods and motivations. Thomas skillfully links them with Snow's public writings and deeds. By recreating the milieu in which Snow worked in China, Thomas provides a clearer understanding of both the man and his times. Snow came to China devoid of any political agenda or sinological background. He returned home a politically astute China hand and famed journalist-author. His writing had taken on the nature of political action, which resulted in troubled soul-searching that Snow usually confined to his diary. Thomas's portrait of Ed Snow reveals a man caught up in an important historical moment, a man who profoundly influenced, and was influenced by, the events that swirled around him. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Author : Lucien Bianco
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 0804708274

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Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by Lucien Bianco Pdf

Analyzes the internal pressures and social crises that fostered the beginnings of the Chinese Revolution

Author : Hualing Hu
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809323036

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American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking by Hualing Hu Pdf

"When the Japanese soldiers ordered Vautrin to leave the campus, she replied: "This is my home. I cannot leave." Facing down the bloodstained bayonets constantly waved in her face, Vautrin shielded the desperate Chinese who sought asylum behind the gates of the college. Vautrin exhausted herself defying the Japanese army and caring for the refugees after the siege ended in March 1938.".

Author : Mao Tse-Tung
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483154374

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Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung Pdf

Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume I focuses on the thoughts of Mao Tse-Tung on differences in social structure, communism, revolution, economics, war tactics, and welfare of the masses. The book first discusses the analysis of the classes in Chinese society and the peasant movement in Hunan. The text then ponders on the reasons why red political power can exist in China. Topics include internal political situation; reasons for the emergence and survival of red political power; and the problem of military bases. The publication takes a look at the struggle in the Chingkang mountains, including the independent regime in the Hunan-Kiangsi border area and the August defeat and the situation in the area under the independent regime. The book also examines the characteristics of China's revolutionary war and strategic defensive tactics, including concentration of troops, mobile warfare, and strategic retreat. Mao Tse-Tung's call for a united effort to wage resistance against Japan is also underscored. The book is a prime reference for readers interested in the philosophy of Mao Tse-Tung.

Author : John B. Powell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257062

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My Twenty-Five Years In China by John B. Powell Pdf

During the two decades ending at Pearl Harbor, Mr. Powell was owner and editor of the China Weekly Review. His opposition to Japanese expansion into China was consistent and bitter, and carried on at great personal risk. His chapters on this phase of recent Chinese history are written at first-hand and are important. It is in his discussion of internal Chinese affairs that he sometimes seems a less reliable guide, being thoroughly committed to Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang.—Robert Gale Woolbert

Author : Joseph W. Esherick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538162781

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China in Revolution by Joseph W. Esherick Pdf

This book includes eleven seminal essays by one of America’s leading authorities on modern Chinese history with an illuminating preface by Prof. Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University. it covers a range of topics from the impact of imperialism to the 1989 protests that led to the Tiananmen massacre. Chapters include an explanation of how China expanded its borders far beyond the Han Chinese heartland and maintained those borders in the transition from empire to nation; how Sun Yat-sen unexpectedly emerged as the Father of the Country; and how a series of unexpected and contingent events brought the empire down in 1911. Despite conventional representations of a static and unified China, this book proves Chinese society to be diverse and constantly changing—especially after the Communist revolution which was a transformative event in modern Chinese history. Esherick denounces traditional imagery of cultural uniformity, which derives from excessive attention to the unitary state, through chapters that explore the impact of the 1937-45 War of Resistance against Japan, the dramatic wartime transformation of Chinese society in both Communist and Nationalist (Guomindang) areas, and the nature of the new Communist regime in Northwest China. In his book, Esherick examines both the Marxist-Leninist theory behind Mao’s notion of the “restoration of capitalism,” against which he waged the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the political theater of the 1989 protest movement. Throughout the book the contingency of history, the need for careful empirical research, and the important yet limited role of history is highlighted as the key to understanding the present or predicting the future of China.

Author : G. William Whitehurst
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476682334

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The China Incident by G. William Whitehurst Pdf

In 1937, Japan blundered into a debilitating war with China, beginning with a minor incident near Peking (now Beijing) that quickly escalated. The Japanese won significant battles and captured the capital, Nanking, after a horrific massacre of its citizens. Chiang Kai-shek, China's acknowledged leader, would not surrender--each side believed it could win a war of attrition. The U.S. sided with China, primarily because of President Roosevelt's personal bias in their favor. Drawing on a wealth of sources including interviews with key players, from soldiers to diplomats, this history traces America's unexpected and unpopular involvement in an Asian conflict, and the growing recognition of Japan's threat to world peace and the inevitability of war.