The Nationalist Era in China, 1927-1949 / Edition 1

by Lloyd E. Eastman, Jerome Ch'en, Suzanne Pepper, Lyman P. Van Slyke

Overview

In recent years historians of China have focused increased attention on the critical decades of National rule on the mainland. This recent scholarship has substantially modified our understanding of the political events of this momentous period, shedding light on the character of Nationalist rule and on the sources of the Communist victory in 1949. Yet no existing textbook on modern China presents the events of the period according to these new findings. The five essays in this volume were written by leading authorities on the period, and they synthesize the new research. Drawn from Volume 13 of The Cambridge History of China, they represent the most complete and stimulating political history of the period available in the literature. The essays selected deal with Nationalist rule during the Nanking decade, the Communist movement from 1927 to 1937, Nationalist rule during the Sino-Japanese War, the Communist movement during the Sino-Japanese war, and the Kuomintang-Communist struggle from 1945 to 1949.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521385916
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/30/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	424
Sales rank:	1,085,984
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

List of maps; List of tables; Preface; 1. Nationalist China during the Nanking decade, 1927–1937 LLoyd E. Eastman; 2. The Communist movement, 1927–1937 Jerome Ch'en; 3. Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 Lloyd E. Eastman; 4. The Chinese Communist movement during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 Lyman P. Van Slyke; 5. The KMT-CCP conflict, 1945–1949 Suzanne Pepper; Bibliography; Index.