Title China at war, 1901-1949 / Edward L. Dreyer

Published London ; New York : Longman, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 422 pages) : maps Series Modern wars in perspective Modern wars in perspective. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of maps; Dedication; Introduction; 1. Military reform and revolution, 1901-11; Traditional military forces and nineteenth century regionalism; The Manchu military reforms, 1901-8; The collapse of the Ch'ing dynasty, 1907-11; The new armies and the 1911 revolution; The emergence of Yuan Shih-k'ai; Military actions at Hankow and Nanking; 2. Peiyang Army ascendancy, 1911-19; Yuan Shih-k'ai as president; Yuan Shih-k'ai as emperor; Yunnan and the National Protection Army; Warlordism after the death of Yuan Shih-k'ai The south and the periphery after 1916Peking and Peiyang politics after Yuan Shih-k'ai; Chang Hsun restores the Manchu dynasty; Tuan Ch'i-jui in power, 1917-19; The May Fourth Movement; 3. High Warlordism, 1919-25; Warlordism as a system; The An-Chih War, 1920; South China and Sun Yat-sen, 1920-2; The First Chih-Feng War, 1922; South China after the First Chih-Feng War; The Second Chih-Feng War, 1924; The northern warlords after the Second Chih-Feng War; 4. The Northern Expedition, 1925-31; The Chinese Communist Party and the First United Front; Chiang Kai-shek and the Whampoa military clique The northern warlords on the eve of the Northern ExpeditionThe Northern Expedition in Hunan and Kiangsi; The Northern Expedition in Fukien and Shanghai; The KMT-CCP split; Into North China; The beginnings of CCP rural insurrection; Campaigns of encirclement and annihilation, 1930-1; The Mukden Incident; 5. Diseases of skin and heart, 1931-7; Manchukuo and Japanese aggression in China; KMT efforts at military modernization; The final encirclement campaigns and the Long March; The Sian Incident and the drift to war; 6. The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-41 Marco Polo Bridge and North China, July-October 1937Shanghai and Nanking, July-December 1937; Hopei and Shansi, September-November 1937; Shantung and Honan, December 1937 to May 1938; The Wuhan campaign, June-November 1938; Canton-Nanchang-Changsha, April 1938 to October 1939; The Chinese winter offensives, 1939-40; To the second battle of Changsha, 1940-1; Collaboration and its failure; The Chinese communists and the Japanese Invasion; The New 4th Army Incident and the KMT-CCP split; The war in the air and the AVG; Overall assessment of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-41 7. China and the Second World War, 1941-5Stilwell's mission to China and the first Burma campaign; China, CBI and Allied strategy; Chennault's air strategy; The Cairo conference and the campaign in north Burma; The 1943-4 Burma campaign; Operation ICHIGO and Stilwell's removal; Communist expansion during 1941-5; Wedemeyer and the end in CBI; The Second World War and China: an overall assessment; 8. The Chinese Civil War, 1945-9; Nationalist China, 1945-7, and the Marshall Mission; Growth of communist power, 1945-7; Civil war: the Manchuria phase, 1947-8 Summary Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large than the turbulent years through which China moved from the overthrow of the last imperial dynasty in 1911, through anarchy, civil war and invasion, to the final triumph of the Communists in 1949 - yet few periods are as little known by the wider world, and so little understood. Professor Dreyer's impressive account of China at war is both an important contribution to this new series of studies of modern wars in their full political, social and ideological contexts, and also a valuable introduction to the birth- confu Analysis Wars History, 1912-1949 China Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-390) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Militär Oorlogen. SUBJECT China -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001944 China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101 Subject China China Chine -- 20e siècle. Chine -- Histoire militaire -- 20e siècle. China -- History -- 20th century. China -- History, Military -- 20th century. Genre/Form History Military history Form Electronic book LC no. 94032357 ISBN 9781317899846 1317899849 9781315846095 1315846098

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