The Generalissimo : : Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China / / Jay Taylor.
One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. Drawing heavily on Chin...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (736 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Romanization -- Prologue -- I Revolution -- 1. A Neo-Confucian Youth -- 2 The Northern Expedition and Civil War -- 3 The Nanking Decade -- II War of resistance -- 4 The Long War Begins -- 5 Chiang and His American Allies -- 6 The China Theater -- 7 Yalta, Manchuria, and Postwar Strategy -- III Civil war -- 8 Chimera of Victory -- 9 The Great Failure -- IV The island -- 10 Streams in the Desert -- 11 Managing the Protector -- 12 Shifting Dynamics -- 13 Nixon and the Last Years -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang's diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674054714 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674054714?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jay Taylor. |