Memoirs Of A Chinese Marshal

Author : Dehuai Peng
Publisher : China Books & Periodicals
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Chinese Marshal written by Dehuai Peng and published by China Books & Periodicals. This book was released on 1984 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Cultural Revolution 'confession' by Marshal Peng Dehuai (1898-1974) covering his career from service in China's warlord armies to command of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea"--Cover.

Author : Rongzhen Nie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Red Star written by Rongzhen Nie and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vasiliĭ Ivanovich Chuĭkov
Publisher : Signature Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission to China written by Vasiliĭ Ivanovich Chuĭkov and published by Signature Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1940, General Vasilii Chuikov was sent by the Soviet government to China to serve as chief military adviser to General Chiang Kaishek, head of the Nationalist government. China was still fighting alone against Japan after more than three years of war. It was Chuikov's task to oversee the provision of Soviet military aid to Chiang's armies and to press the Chinese leadership toward more aggressive resistance to the Japanese. Chuikov came well prepared for his task, having studied Chinese as an officer cadet and having twice been posted to China in the 1920s. Chuikov's evaluation of the Chinese Army was much more positive than that of American and British observers of the time. While he recognized problems in the highly politicized senior command, he commended the fighting spirit of the junior officers and the enlisted men. Chuikov not only saw Nationalist China as unconquerable; he also believed that the Nationalists were capable of sustained offensive operations against the Japanese. From his field inspections, he offers professional assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese army and he subjects a number of major engagements fought in 1941 to close analysis. Chuikov's memoir ranges widely. He portrays in sharp outline the Nationalist military elite, he memorably describes life in the wartime capital of Chungking, and he writes vividly of his travels through rural China. On his return to the Soviet Union in 1942, Chuikov was assigned command of the 62nd army and made his name as the victor of Stalingrad. This perceptive and keenly observed memoir, written by one of the great Soviet commanders of the Second World War, is suffused with deep sympathy for the Chinese people in their resistance struggle.

Author : Cheng Nien
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802145167
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Death in Shanghai written by Cheng Nien and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.

Author : Alfred Graf von Waldersee
Publisher : Greenwood Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field-marshal's Memoirs written by Alfred Graf von Waldersee and published by Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1924 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Stursberg
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643872
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Foreign Bones in China written by Peter Stursberg and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Foreign Bones in China tells a story of China through the eyes of a British colonial family. Through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, two world wars, and the rise of Mao, the Shaws were witness to the turbulent birth of modern China. Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw, a merchant seaman, arrived in China in the 1830s. After a long and colourful career, he settled in the port of Foochow, married a Japanese woman, and started a family. The Shaw children grew up in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade, and expected to spend their lives in this beautiful place. But a few years later, they were forced to leave. In a dramatic display of pro-Chinese nationalism, foreigners were expelled from the country—even to the bones lying in their graves. Told with emotion and insight, No Foreign Bones in China explores cultural history in lavish detail. In re-creating the story of his family, Peter Stursberg reveals history as it was lived and made.

Author : Suisheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131747483X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Foreign Policy written by Suisheng Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how China is adapting to international norms and practices while still giving primacy to its national interests. It examines China's strategic behaviour on the world stage, particularly in its relationships with major powers and Asian neighbours.

Author : Sven Hedin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436700429
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chiang Kai-Shek: Marshal of China written by Sven Hedin and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : John Leighton Stuart
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1446547361
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years in China - The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador written by John Leighton Stuart and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Leighton Stuart, who was born and brought up in Hangchow, China, where both his father and mother were leading missionaries, tells us that in his boyhood he always had “an aversion for missionary life.” Even after his graduation from Hampden-Sydney College, he still confessed his “lack of enthusiasm for missionary service.” It is difficult to exaggerate the aversion I had developed against going to China as a missionary, . . . haranguing crowds of idle, curious people in street chapels or temple fairs, selling tracts for almost nothing, being regarded with amused or angry contempt by the native population, physical discomforts or hardships, etc., no chance for intellectual or studious interests, a sort of living death or modern equivalent for retirement from the world. But, after prolonged inner struggle, Dr. Stuart finally decided “to put my religious belief to what was for me then the ultimate test.” He became a missionary to China and, as such, lived and worked in China for nearly half a century!

Author : Andrew Scobell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521525855
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Use of Military Force written by Andrew Scobell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique study of China s militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995 1996) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China s strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a Cult of Defense in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this Cult of Defense disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People s Liberation Army s doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China s twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.