China at war : triumph and tragedy in the emergence of the new China / Hans van de Ven.
China at war : triumph and tragedy in the emergence of the new China / Hans van de Ven.
China at war : triumph and tragedy in the emergence of the new China / Hans van de Ven.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/1443
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English
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xvi, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Part I. Staking a nation: Chiang Kaishek: saving China -- Nation building -- Nanjing, Nanjing -- To war -- Part II. Momentous times: The Battle of Shanghai -- Trading space for time -- Regime change -- War communism -- Part III. The acid test: The Allies at war -- The turning point -- Japan's surren...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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2018.
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China's mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time--from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 until the close of the Korean War in 1953--across such vast territory. As Hans van de Ven explains, the greatest puzzles lie in understanding China's simu...
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China at war : triumph and tragedy in the emergence of the new China / Hans van de Ven.
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"First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Profile Books Ltd."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/1443
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0674983505 hardcover alkaline paper
9780674983502 hardcover alkaline paper
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951.042
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991024162014302626
