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The Generalissimo : Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China / Jay Taylor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (736 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674054714
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.04/2092 22
LOC classification:
  • DS777.488.C5 T39 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)