Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China, with a New Postscript

Name: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China, with a New Postscript
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ISBN: 9780674060494

ISBN-10: 0674060490

ISBN-13: 9780674060494

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Jay Taylor

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Book details

List price: $27.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Jay Taylor is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.



List of Maps


Acknowledgments


Note on Romanization


Prologue



Revolution



A Neo-Confucian Youth



The Northern Expedition and Civil War



The Nanking Decade



War of Resistance



The Long War Begins



Chiang and His American Allies



The China Theater



Yalta, Manchuria, and Postwar Strategy



Civil War



Chimera of Victory



The Great Failure



The Island



Streams in the Desert



Managing the Protector



Shifting Dynamics



Nixon and the Last Years


Epilogue


Postscript to the Paperback Edition


Notes


Index