The Generalissimo : Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China / Jay Taylor.
Taylor, Jay, author.
2022
DS777.488.C5 T39 2009eb
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Title The Generalissimo : Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China / Jay Taylor.
Author Taylor, Jay, author.
ISBN 9780674054714
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054714
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (736 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674054714 doi
Call Number DS777.488.C5 T39 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 951.04/2092
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.
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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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