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Yangtze Showdown

Author : Brian Izzard
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848322240
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Yangtze Showdown written by Brian Izzard and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attack on the British frigate Amethyst on the Yangtze River by Chinese Communists in 1949 made world headlines. There was even more publicity when the ship made a dramatic escape after being trapped for 101 days. Eulogised by the British as an example of outstanding courage and fortitude, the 'Yangtze Incident' was even made into a feature film, which depicted the ship and her crew as innocent victims of Communist aggression. ??The truth was more complex, and so sensitive that the government intended that the files should be closed until 2030. However, these have now been released and in making use of these documents this book is the first to tell the full story. What emerges is an intriguing tale of intelligence failure, military over-confidence and a hero with feet of clay _ it is by no means as heroic as the well-publicised official version, but every bit as entertaining. While the reputations of diplomatic and naval top brass take a knock, the bravery and ingenuity of those actively involved shines even more brightly. Written with verve and including much new and surprising information, this book is both enjoyable and informative.

The Secret War for China

Author : Panagiotis Dimitrakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786732718
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Secret War for China written by Panagiotis Dimitrakis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek - the head of China's military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - began the `northern expeditions' to bring China's northern territories back under the control of the state. It was during this period that the KMT purged communist activities, fractured the army and sparked the Chinese Civil War - which would rage for over twenty years. The communists, led by General Mao Tse-Tsung, were for much of the period forced underground and concentrated in the Chinese countryside. As the author argues, this resulted in China's war featuring unusually high levels of espionage and sabotage, and increased the military importance of information gathering. Based on newly declassified material, Panagiotis Dimitrakis charts the double-crossings, secret meetings and bloody assassinations which would come to define China's future. Uniquely, The Secret War for China gives equal weighting to the role of foreign actors: the role of British intelligence in unmasking Communist International (Comintern) agents in China, for example, and the allies' attempts to turn nationalist China against the Japanese. The Secret War for China also documents the clandestine confrontation between Mao and Chiang and the secret negotiations between Chiang and the Axis Powers, whose forces he employed against the CCP once the Second World War was over. In his turn, Mao employed nationalist forces who had defected - during the last three years of the civil war about 105 out of 869 KMT generals defected to the CCP. This book is an urgent and necessary guide to the intricacies of the Chinese Civil War, a war which decisively shaped the modern Asian world.

From Revolution To Politics

Author : Benjamin Yang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429713576
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book From Revolution To Politics written by Benjamin Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing fresh analysis of the history and politics of Chinese communism, this book utilizes previously inaccessible sources to reassess the epic Long March. It sheds new light on the revolutionary momentum and political structure of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930s.

Navy Medicine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Navy Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s

Author : Hao Hu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030126889
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s written by Hao Hu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933. This data, which was the foundation for John Lossing Buck’s seminal work Land Utilization in China (1937), was thought lost to history until rediscovered in 2000. The book presents the first modern analyses of agricultural economics in Republican China using Buck’s micro-data, covering important topics such as nutritional poverty, tenancy issues, land productivity, surplus labor, workers’ incomes, credit supply, and regional differences. Through using modern analytical methods, this book presents a more accurate picture of the agricultural economy in the Republican Era and will be of particular interest to agricultural economists, economic historians, and Chinese studies scholars.

Mao's Long March

Author : I. G. Edmonds
Publisher : MacRae Smith Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Long March written by I. G. Edmonds and published by MacRae Smith Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events of the 6,000 mile march undertaken by Mao Tse-tung and his Communist followers as they retreated before the forces of Chiang Kai-shek.

Deng

Author : Benjamin Yang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134964838
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Deng written by Benjamin Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exposition of the life of Deng Xiaoping, the pre-eminent leader of late 20th-century China, from his birth in 1904 to the present. Written by an insider, this study is notable for the detail it provides on elite-level Chinese Communist Party politics and Deng's changing relations with his party colleagues in the jockying for power that constitutes a significant aspect of CCP politics. This biography combines intimate details, and the sweep of history that encompasses the struggles of 20th-century China. This text provides both political and personal information that may be of interest to students of Chinese history, as well as providing an insight into the man who has influenced the social, political, and economic development of China.

Warship 2016

Author : Stephen Dent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844864375
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Warship 2016 written by Stephen Dent and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warship 2016 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery and much more to maintain the impressive standards of scholarship and research from the field of warship history. This 38th edition features the usual range of diverse articles spanning the subject by an international array of expert authors.

Fin-de-Siècle Splendor

Author : Dewei Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804728454
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Fin-de-Siècle Splendor written by Dewei Wang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late Qing fiction nurtured a creative, innovative poetics, one that was spurned by the reformers of the May Fourth generation in favor of Western-style realism. The author recognizes that a full account of modern Chinese fiction needs to ask why so many genres, styles, themes, and figures found in late imperial fiction were repressed by "modern" Chinese literary discourse. He focuses on four genres of late Qing fiction that have been either rudely dismissed in pejorative terms or simply ignored: depravity romances, court-case and chivalric cycles, grotesque exposés, and scientific fantasies. The author shows that in spite of the realist orthodoxy that has dominated Chinese literature since the May Fourth movement, these unwelcome genres have continually found their way back into mainstream discourse, their influence being increasingly evident in recent decades. This first comprehensive study of late Qing fiction discusses more than sixty works, at least half of which have rarely or never been dealt with by Western or Chinese scholars. Richly informed by contemporary literary theory, this book constitutes a polemical rethinking of the nature of Chinese literary and cultural modernity.

Naval History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Naval History written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings

Author : United States Naval Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings written by United States Naval Institute and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China 1949

Author : Graham Hutchings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 075560735X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book China 1949 written by Graham Hutchings and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excellent." The Economist "A gripping account." South China Morning Post "Well worth reading." The Morning Star "A persuasive and readable narrative." History Today "Elegantly written." The Tablet "An excellent study." The Chartist "Engaging." Asia Times The events of 1949 in China reverberated across the world and throughout the rest of the century. That tumultuous year saw the dramatic collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's 'pro-Western' Nationalist government, overthrown by Mao Zedong and his communist armies, and the foundation of the People's Republic of China. China 1949 follows the huge military forces that tramped across the country, the exile of once-powerful leaders and the alarm of the foreign powers watching on. The well-known figures of the Revolution are all here. But so are lesser known military and political leaders along with a host of 'ordinary' Chinese citizens and foreigners caught in the maelstrom. They include the often neglected but crucial role played by the 'Guangxi faction' within Chiang's own regime, the fate of a country woman who fled her village carrying her baby to avoid the fighting, a prominent Shanghai business man and a schoolboy from Nanyang, ordered by his teachers to trek south with his classmates in search of safety. Shadowing both the leaders and the people of China in 1949, Hutchings reveals the lived experiences, aftermath and consequences of this pivotal year -- one in which careers were made and ruined, and popular hopes for a 'new China' contrasted with fears that it would change the country forever. The legacy of 1949 still resonates today as the founding myth, source of national identity and root of the political behaviour of modern China. Graham Hutchings has written a vivid, gripping account of the year in which China abruptly changed course, and pulled the rest of world history along with it.

Early Ming Government: The Evolution of Dual Capitals

Author : Edward L. Farmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171970
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Early Ming Government: The Evolution of Dual Capitals written by Edward L. Farmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the political and institutional history of government in the early Ming dynasty, from roughly 1355 through the 1440s. Focuses on the mobilzation of resources involved in the geographic placement, construction, and maintenance of the dynasty's two capitals in Peking and Nanking.

The Inner Opium War

Author : James M. Polachek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 168417290X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Opium War written by James M. Polachek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did defeat in the Opium War not lead Ch'ing China to a more realistic appreciation of Western might and Chinese weakness? James Polachek's revisionist analysis exposes the behind-the-scenes political struggles that not only shaped foreign-policy decisions in the 1830s and 1840s but have continued to affect the history of Chinese nationalism in modern times. Polachek looks closely at the networks of literati and officials, self-consciously reminiscent of the late Ming era that sought and gained the ear of the emperor. Challenging the conventional view that Lin Tse-hsu and his supporters were selfless patriots who acted in China's best interests, Polachek agrues that, for reasons having more to do with their own domestic political agenda, these men advocated a futile policy of militant resistance to the West. Linking political intrigue, scholarly debates, and foreign affairs, local notables in Canton and literati lobbyists in Perking this book sets the Opium War for the first times in its "inner," domestic political context.

Shadow of The Rising Sun

Author : Paul E. Selinger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469107686
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Shadow of The Rising Sun written by Paul E. Selinger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow of the Rising Sun, (book two of The Dragon?s Wake Trilogy) continues the Lee family?s story of struggle, obligation and destiny. The year is 1918, Japan has occupied and then annexed Korea, cruelly reducing it to a virtual slave colony,and has now begun its takeover of Manchuria on its way to conquering China. Michael Y.T. Lee, son of former Minister Lee, leader of Korea?s liberation movement, is seventeen when he is sent to Peking University to prepare himself to join his father in the anti-Japanese resistance. There he meets some of the future leaders of China and falls under the influence of the country?s intellectual giants, some who will found China?s communist party. While he yearns to fight for the freedom of Korea, his ancestral homeland, which he has never seen, he realizes he must first address problems closer to home. Warlords and gangsters have taken over much of China, creating anarchy and corruption throughout the land. China?s well-organized opium cartel controls Shanghai and all central and coastal China. Y.T. joins Sun Yat-sen?s nationalist army to take back the country and unite it under a nationalist government. He becomes a cavalry officer and fights against the warlords. After being wounded in battle he learns that Chiang Kaishek, Sun?s prot?g? and successor, has betrayed the government and sold it out to the opium cartel. Meanwhile, Japan?s invasion of China expands. Even Shanghai, Y.T.?s home, is taken over by them in their bloodthirsty pursuit of empire. Y.T. must make agonizing choices to save his family and his life goals as the communists, nationalists, and Japanese all battle for control of China.

National Memories

Author : Henry L. Roediger, III
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019756867X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book National Memories written by Henry L. Roediger, III and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together distinguished scholars to address broad societal claims about the surge in populist nationalism in the scholarly literature on collective memory. The book sets the stage by examining historical origins and case studies of populism and nationalism in the United States before exploring these phenomena in the global context. Next, the book establishes conceptual frameworks for approaching nationalism and populism in national narratives through the literature on collective memory, political psychology, history, and international studies. The book concludes with a discussion on common themes uncovered over the course of the book. Throughout each section, the book uses empirical evidence and conceptual claims to shed light on the rise in global populist nationalism in a thoughtful, comprehensive manner for scholars of a wide range of backgrounds. National Memories offers a multidisciplinary, modern approach to an old global societal challenge in a time of great political and social upheaval.

Shanghai 1937

Author : Peter Harmsen
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 161200167X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Shanghai 1937 written by Peter Harmsen and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. In its sheer scale, the struggle for ChinaÕs largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence, in theaters around the world. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War IIÑor perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the warÑthe first major battle in the global conflict. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed the continent toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of ÒFlying TigerÓ fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders. Written by Peter Harmsen, a foreign correspondent in East Asia for two decades, and currently bureau chief in Taiwan for the French news agency AFP, Shanghai 1937 fills a gaping chasm in our understanding of the Second World War.