Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan / Hsiao-ting Lin.
Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan / Hsiao-ting Lin.
Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan / Hsiao-ting Lin.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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G 2016/1886
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English
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Physical content
vii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Taiwan in the Balance -- 2. Troubled Beginning -- 3. Reformulating U.S. Policy toward Taiwan -- 4. Chiang Kai-shek in Eclipse -- 5. Last Gasp on the Mainland -- 6. Floating State, Divided Strategy -- 7. U.S. Military and Security Policy Goes Underground -- 8. Isla...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
"Accidental State explores the historical formation in the late 1940s and early 1950s of a de facto state on Taiwan separate from the de facto state ruling the Chinese mainland. The peculiar status of the Republic of China on Taiwan as an independent state but not quite a nation-state is important for our understanding of modern East Asia. Too ofte...
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Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan / Hsiao-ting Lin.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index.
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G 2016/1886
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74VKVpE0WOMM
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ISBN
9780674659810
MMS ID
991023986819702626
