Accidental State : : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan / / Hsiao-ting Lin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Lin, Hsiao-ting,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 17 halftones, 2 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acronyms and Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Taiwan in the Balance --; 2. A 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. The Island Redoubt Reinvigorated --; 9. Between Mainland and Maritime Strategies --; 10. The Making of an Island State --; Conclusion --; Glossary of Names and Terms --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674969643; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674969643
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hsiao-ting Lin.

Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the Two Chinas dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Hsiao-ting Lin challenges this conventional narrative, showing the many ways the ad hoc creation of this not fully sovereign state was accidental and serendipitous.