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Civil War in China
The Political Struggle 1945-1949
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1999
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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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
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Equivalents and Abbreviations No access
Newspapers: Political Affiliations No access
A Note on Romanization No access
Chronology No access
Preface to the Second Edition No access
Map: Military Border Regions No access
I. Introduction No access
II. The Beginning of the End: Take-over from the Japanese No access
III. The Student Anti-war Movement No access
IV. The Political Costs of Economic Mismanagement No access
V. A Summary of the Indictment: the Intelligentsia's Critique of the Kuomintang No access
VI. The Intelligentsia's Critique of the Chinese Communists No access
VII. The Return to Land Reform No access
VIII. The Return to the Cities No access
IX. A New Beginning: The Communist Take-over from the Kuomintang No access
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
