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Decisive Encounters The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950

Westad Odd Arne
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780804744782
Publisert
2003-03-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Stanford University Press
Vekt
753 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Westad Odd Arne

Biographical note

Odd Arne Westad is a University Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among his many books is Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963 (Editor) (Stanford and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998

Decisive Encounters The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950

Westad Odd Arne
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk
Westad Odd Arne
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"Odd Arne Westad has written a key work on the civil-war period as well as an essential bibliographic starting point for further research."

- <I>The China Journal</I>,

"This path-breaking, perceptive work merits wide circulation and systematic analysis."

- <I>Canadian Journal of History</i>,

"This book is of fundamental importance to understanding twentieth-century Chinese history, comparative revolution, and early Cold War history. Weaving together strands of military, social, political, and international history, Westad provides by far the best empirically grounded, multi-archival, and comprehensive nationwide analysis of how the Chinese Communist Party achieved victory in the Chinese Civil War of 1946-1950."

- <I>Journal of Cold War Studies</I>,

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"Offers meticulous research, drawing on classic reports, recent memoirs, and scholarship in Chinese, Russian, and English based on archival research. . . . More important, [Westad] weaves a grand, sweeping epic of social, cultural, and economic conflict that includes but goes beyond political and military battles. . . . Highly recommended for academic libraries and collections in Chinese history."

- <I>Library Journal</I>,

"<i>Decisive Encounters</i> is a highly readable, comprehensive, and reliable account of a war whose importance we all know but which nonetheless has received little attention."

- <I>PACIFIC AFFAIRS</I>,

"This remarkable survey of a crucial period of Chinese history deserves to be widely read."

- <I>Choice</I>,

The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope—its battles were the largest military engagements since World War II—until now remarkably little has been known about the war, and even less about its effects on the societies that suffered through it. This major new history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two central questions: Why was the war fought? What were the immediate and the lasting results of the Communists’ victory? Though the book highlights military matters, it also shows how campaigns were mounted alongside profound changes in politics, society, and culture—changes that ultimately contributed as much to the character of today’s China as did the major battles. By analyzing the war as an international conflict, the author explains why so much of the present legitimacy of the Beijing government derives from its successes during the late 1940s, and reveals how the antagonism between China and the United States was born.
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This history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two questions: Why was the war fought? And What were the immediate and lasting results of the Communists' victory? It also shows how campaigns were mounted against changes in politics, society and culture.
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"Odd Arne Westad has written a key work on the civil-war period as well as an essential bibliographic starting point for further research."

- <I>The China Journal</I>,

"This path-breaking, perceptive work merits wide circulation and systematic analysis."

- <I>Canadian Journal of History</i>,

"This book is of fundamental importance to understanding twentieth-century Chinese history, comparative revolution, and early Cold War history. Weaving together strands of military, social, political, and international history, Westad provides by far the best empirically grounded, multi-archival, and comprehensive nationwide analysis of how the Chinese Communist Party achieved victory in the Chinese Civil War of 1946-1950."

- <I>Journal of Cold War Studies</I>,

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"Offers meticulous research, drawing on classic reports, recent memoirs, and scholarship in Chinese, Russian, and English based on archival research. . . . More important, [Westad] weaves a grand, sweeping epic of social, cultural, and economic conflict that includes but goes beyond political and military battles. . . . Highly recommended for academic libraries and collections in Chinese history."

- <I>Library Journal</I>,

"<i>Decisive Encounters</i> is a highly readable, comprehensive, and reliable account of a war whose importance we all know but which nonetheless has received little attention."

- <I>PACIFIC AFFAIRS</I>,

"This remarkable survey of a crucial period of Chinese history deserves to be widely read."

- <I>Choice</I>,

The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope—its battles were the largest military engagements since World War II—until now remarkably little has been known about the war, and even less about its effects on the societies that suffered through it. This major new history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two central questions: Why was the war fought? What were the immediate and the lasting results of the Communists’ victory? Though the book highlights military matters, it also shows how campaigns were mounted alongside profound changes in politics, society, and culture—changes that ultimately contributed as much to the character of today’s China as did the major battles. By analyzing the war as an international conflict, the author explains why so much of the present legitimacy of the Beijing government derives from its successes during the late 1940s, and reveals how the antagonism between China and the United States was born.
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This history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two questions: Why was the war fought? And What were the immediate and lasting results of the Communists' victory? It also shows how campaigns were mounted against changes in politics, society and culture.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780804744782
Publisert
2003-03-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Stanford University Press
Vekt
753 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Westad Odd Arne

Biographical note

Odd Arne Westad is a University Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among his many books is Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963 (Editor) (Stanford and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998

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