Duel For The Middle Kingdom

Author : William Morwood
Publisher : New York : Everest House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duel for the Middle Kingdom written by William Morwood and published by New York : Everest House. This book was released on 1980 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For twenty centuries China--known as the Middle Kingdom--lay dormant under the mantle of the Confucian system. It was a feudal society in which there was a place for everyone, supervised by mandarins and gentry who made sure that few strayed from their allotted niches. Those who were born poor remained poo, and there was no chance whatsoever for a better life. Then within only 38 years--1911-1949--everything radically changed. China was ripped apart by the explosive force of new ideas from the West. In practical terms, the upheaval took the form of an unrelenting duel between two titans: Chiang Kai-shek, champion of the old values, and Mao Tse-tung, representative of the Communist Party--the prophet of the future. To understand the policies of the tough men who rule Peking today, it is necessary to delve into the past, to search for motives and clues to what awaits both China and the West. 'Duel For The Middle Kingdom' is the extraordinary work that explains China today by clarifying its recent past. In its compelling pages, William Morwood tells the stories of the colossal blunder that enabled Sun Yat-sen to topple the Manchu Empire and create the Chinese Republic; the infamous Shanghai Massacre, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek tried to exterminate the Communists; the Red Army's 6,000-mile Long March around the rim of China to escape Chiang's murderous Kuomintang forces; the bitter wars--both civil and against the Japanese--before the People's republic was proclaimed in 1949. 'Duel For The Middle Kingdom' also brings to life the famous Americans--Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, General Stilwell, Marshall, and others--who tried in various ways to turn the tide of China's destiny. All failed because none could understand the underlying dynamics of a nation convulsed by a desperate need for change."--Front and back flaps of book jacket.

Author : Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004442820
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces written by Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters of Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces discuss the degree of influence that provincial developments played in reshaping the Egyptian state and culture during the Middle Kingdom. Contributors to the volume are Egyptologists from around the world who have developed their research following a conference held at the University of Jaén in Spain.

Author : Ian Shaw
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504060598
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Warfare written by Ian Shaw and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to the military history of Ancient Egypt, from battle tactics to weaponry and more. The excellent preservation of Egyptian artifacts—including bows, axes, and chariots—means that it is possible to track the changing nature of Egyptian military technology from the Neolithic period up to the Iron Age, and identify equipment and ideas adopted from other civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East. From the editor of The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, this informative volume, which includes an index, covers crucial issues such as military strategy, martial ideology, the construction of fortresses, and the waging of siege warfare; as well as the practical questions of life, death, and survival that confront individual soldiers on the battlefield.

Author : John Pomfret
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429944129
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom written by John Pomfret and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.

Author : Bruce A. Elleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134610084
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 written by Bruce A. Elleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite China? Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 seeks to answer these questions by exploring the most important domestic and international conflicts over the past two hundred years, from the last half of the Qing empire through to modern day China. It reveals how most of China's wars during this period were fought to preserve unity in China, and examines their distinctly cyclical pattern of imperial decline, domestic chaos and finally the creation of a new unifying dynasty. By 1989 this cycle appeared complete, but the author asks how long this government will be able to hold power. Exposing China as an imperialist country, and one which has often manipulated western powers in its favour, Bruce Elleman seeks to redress the views of China as a victimised nation.

Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136593411
Total Pages : 2992 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 20th Century A-GI written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 2992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

Author : Edward R. Kantowicz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802844552
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rage of Nations written by Edward R. Kantowicz and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume of a two-volume set, Canadian historian Kantowicz describes the events, people, and ideas driving the world's social and political course through two world wars, the Holocaust, revolutions, depressions, and other phenomena. Covers from the beginning of the century through World War II; Coming Apart, Coming Together will presumably take the story from there. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Brian J. C. McKercher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139425064
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transition of Power written by Brian J. C. McKercher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses one of the least understood issues in modern international history: how, between 1930 and 1945, Britain lost its global pre-eminence to the United States. The crucial years are 1930 to 1940, for which until now no comprehensive examination of Anglo-American relations exists. Transition of Power analyses these relations in the pivotal decade, with an epilogue dealing with the Second World War after 1941. Britain and the United States, and their intertwined fates, were fundamental to the course of international history in these years. Professor McKercher's book dissects the various strands of the two powers' relationship in the fifteen years after 1930 from a British perspective - economic, diplomatic, naval and strategic.

Author : Sherman Xiaogang Lai
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004198008
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Springboard to Victory written by Sherman Xiaogang Lai and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on documents published in China, this book examines the reasons behind the Chinese Communists’ success during the Sino-Japanese War demythologizing Maoist guerrilla warfare by revealing the links between the Communists’ military and financial might during the Japanese occupation.

Author : Thomas J. Christensen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213321
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Useful Adversaries written by Thomas J. Christensen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek's KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States. Christensen first develops a novel two-level approach that explains why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize popular support for expensive, long-term security strategies. By linking "grand strategy," domestic politics, and the manipulation of ideology and conflict, Christensen provides a nuanced and sophisticated link between domestic politics and foreign policy. He then applies the approach to Truman's policy toward the Chinese Communists in 1947-50 and to Mao's initiation of the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis. In these cases the extension of short-term conflict was useful in gaining popular support for the overall grand strategy that each leader was promoting domestically: Truman's limited-containment strategy toward the USSR and Mao's self-strengthening programs during the Great Leap Forward. Christensen also explores how such low-level conflicts can escalate, as they did in Korea, despite leaders' desire to avoid actual warfare.