China's Civil War

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Cambridge University Press, 05.03.2015 - 283 Seiten
China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945-9 that brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Integrating history and memory, it surveys a period of intense upheaval and chaos to show how the Communist Party and its armies succeeded in overthrowing the Nationalist government to bring political and social revolution to China. Drawing from a collection of biographies, memoirs, illustrations and oral histories, Diana Lary gives a voice to those who experienced the war first-hand, exemplifying the direct effects of warfare - the separations and divisions, the exiles and losses, and the social upheaval that resulted from the conflict. Lary explores the long-term impact on Chinese societies on the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, which have all diverged far from pre-war Chinese society.
 

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Figures
3
1
19
The social background to the Civil War
22
11a
43
12
46
15
47
17
48
19
49
Destroyed tracks
113
New PLA recruits
130
July 1948January 1949
138
Jovial PLA soldier
141
The PLA enters Beiping
148
FebruaryDecember 1949
168
Comparative military strengths 1949 Column 4
171
CCP control mid1949
192

Comparative military strengths 2 Chiang Kaishek and Mao Zedong 11 3 Comparative military strengths 1946 Column 1
57
Zhou Zuoren
64
A traitor
72
July 1946June 1947
80
Winter campaign
83
CCP propaganda
87
Wounded soldier Feng Zikai
95
Jiang Qing 1946
102
July 1947June 1948
109
Comparative military strengths 19471948 Column 2
110
the early 1950s
195
PuYi as emperor of Manzhouguo
213
Social outcomes of the Civil War
217
Happy young woman
229
Officer sewing page 7
233
Glossary
265
110
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278
60
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China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945–1949
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Autoren-Profil (2015)

Diana Lary is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She completed both her degree and PhD at the University of London. She has spent several years in China, the first time teaching English (1964-5) and later working as the resident sinologist in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (1985-7). As a Professor in Canada, Lary has focussed on modern China, in particular on the impact of warfare on Chinese society. She also works on Chinese migration, within China and outside the country. She has travelled extensively in Asia and spent long periods doing research in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelChina's Civil War
Band 13 von New Approaches to Asian History
Autor/inDiana Lary
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagCambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN1107054672, 9781107054677
Länge283 Seiten
  
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