The Sian Incident

Author : Tien-wei Wu
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902148
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sian Incident written by Tien-wei Wu and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tien-wei Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sian Incident written by Tien-wei Wu and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chin-yen Fang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sian Incident written by Chin-yen Fang and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804793115
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II written by Hans van de Ven and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulting in economic, military, and political domination. This shifted dramatically during WWII, when alliances needed to be realigned, resulting in the evolution of China's relationships with the USSR, the U.S., Britain, France, India, and Japan. Based on key historical archives, memoirs, and periodicals from across East Asia and the West, this book explains how China was able to become one of the Allies with a seat on the Security Council, thus changing the course of its future. Breaking with U.S.-centered analyses which stressed the incompetence of Chinese Nationalist diplomacy, Negotiating China's Destiny makes the first sustained use of the diaries of Chiang Kai-shek (which have only become available in the last few years) and who is revealed as instrumental in asserting China's claims at this pivotal point. Negotiating China's Destiny demonstrates that China's concerns were far broader than previously acknowledged and that despite the country's military weakness, it pursued its policy of enhancing its international stature, recovering control over borderlands it had lost to European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and becoming recognized as an important allied power with determination and success.

Author : Jonathan Fenby
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786739843
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chiang Kai Shek written by Jonathan Fenby and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most influential world figures of the twentieth century. The leader of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist movement in China, by 1928 he had established himself as head of the government in Nanking. But while he managed to survive the political storms of the 1930s, Chiang's power was continually being undermined by the Japanese on one side and the Chinese Communists on the other. Drawing extensively on original Chinese sources and accounts by contemporaneous journalists, acclaimed author Jonathan Fenby explores little-known international connections in Chiang's story as he unfolds a story as fascinating in its conspiratorial intrigues as it is remarkable for its psychological insights. This is the definitive biography of the man who, despite his best intentions, helped create modern-day China.

Author : Helen Foster Snow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Sian Incident, 1936 written by Helen Foster Snow and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruiqing Luo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zhou Enlai and the Xi'an Incident written by Ruiqing Luo and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothy Borg
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933-1938 written by Dorothy Borg and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar Snow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book The Battle for Asia written by Edgar Snow and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David P. Barrett
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book China in the Anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 written by David P. Barrett and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of eleven articles written by scholars of international repute that specializes in the history of China during her long war against Japan from 1937 to 1945. The topics addressed include political, economic, social, and diplomatic issues related to wartime China based on materials newly opened for research. They give strong evidence that the Sino-Japanese War was of a complexity and magnitude that must be understood in terms that go far beyond those solely of its military dimensions.