Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949

Suzanne Pepper

doi:10.5771/9780742573659

Summary

Many books have tried to analyze the reasons for the Chinese communist success in China's 1945_1949 civil war, but Suzanne Pepper's seminal work was the first and remains the only comprehensive analysis of how the ruling Nationalists lost that war_not just militarily, but by alienating the civilian population through corruption and incompetence. Now available in a new edition, this authoritative investigation of Kuomintang failure and communist success explores the new research and archival resources available for assessing this pivotal period in contemporary Chinese history. Even more relevant today given the contemporary debates in Hong Kong and Taiwan over the terms of reunification with a communist-led national government in Beijing, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking a nuanced understanding of twentieth-century Chinese politics.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1999
Copyright Year: 1999
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8476-9133-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7425-7365-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 509
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Equivalents and Abbreviations No access
4. Newspapers: Political Affiliations No access
5. A Note on Romanization No access
6. Chronology No access
7. Preface to the Second Edition No access
8. Map: Military Border Regions No access
1. I. Introduction No access
2. II. The Beginning of the End: Take-over from the Japanese No access
3. III. The Student Anti-war Movement No access
4. IV. The Political Costs of Economic Mismanagement No access
5. V. A Summary of the Indictment: the Intelligentsia's Critique of the Kuomintang No access
1. VI. The Intelligentsia's Critique of the Chinese Communists No access
2. VII. The Return to Land Reform No access
3. VIII. The Return to the Cities No access
4. IX. A New Beginning: The Communist Take-over from the Kuomintang No access
5. X. The Politics of Civil War No access
Bibliographic Notes No access Pages 436 - 441
A Note on the Revised Bibliography No access Pages 442 - 451
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 452 - 492
Index No access Pages 493 - 509