The generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China /
Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong, he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-f...
| Основен автор: | Taylor, Jay, 1931- |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009.
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Съдържание:
- Revolution. A neo-Confucian youth ; The northern expedition and civil war ; The Nanking decade
- War of resistance. The Long War begins ; Chiang and his American allies ; The China theater ; Yalta, Manchuria, and postwar strategy
- Civil war. Chimera of victory ; The great failure
- The island. Streams in the desert ; Managing the protector ; Shifting dynamics ; Nixon and the last years.