Routledge, 2020. — 295 p. In 1944 Moslem forces in China's westernmost province of Xinjiang rose against the Chinese authorities and succeeded in establishing a small independent Islamic state - the East Turkestan Republic. Based on newly available archival material, this book describes the Moslem challenge to Chinese rule and documents the Nationalist government's response to...
Random House, 2014. — 500 p. A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations. As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing airmen shot down over enemy territory. Chinese leaders...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 288 p. With its wild, dissolute, extravagant group of fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries, artists and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet for larger than life individuals, Peking attracted characters as diverse as Wallis...
Pen and Sword Books, 2018. — 128 p. On 19 February 1927, the city of Shanghai fell silent as a general strike gripped the factories of the industrial district. A magnet for foreign traders and businessmen (British, French, American, then later Japanese), by the 1920s the pursuit of profit had produced one of the most cosmopolitan cities that the world has ever seen. Known as...
Basic Books. — 1997. — 1077 p. ISBN: 978-0-786-72760-5. The Path to Nanking. Sex Weeks of Terror. The Fall of Nanking. Six Weeks of Horror. The Nanking Safety Zone. What the World Knew. The Occupation of Nanking. Jugment Day. The Fate of Survivors. The Forgotten Holocaust: A Second Rape. Epilogue.
Edited and translated by John Balcom. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. — 448 p. — e-ISBN: 9780231547819. 齊邦媛. 巨流河 Since I came to Taiwan in 1947, the memories of the twenty-four years of my life lived in war-torn China have haunted me like a second reality. I came of age during a historic time when my country was united to resist the Japanese invasion. The twentieth...
Haus Publishing, 2008. — 224 p. Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo (1887-1985). Born in Shanghai and raised in the city's International Settlement, Koo became fluent in English during his postgraduate studies abroad - he got a PhD in Law from Columbia in 1912. He was recalled soon afterwards to become the English Secretary to the newly formed Republic of China, and became...
Routledge, 2005. — 223 p. In the middle of the civil war between the Chinese Communists and the Kuomintang, the writers floated on a barge down the Grand Canal, through no-man’s-land and into the Liberated Areas. At the end of November 1947, they finally reached the cluster of villages in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains which formed the capital of the...
Bantam Books, 2012. — 498 p. From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the...
Routledge, 2013. — 324 p. First Published in 1981. Contrary to Chairman Mao's assertion that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, this study contends that political power in China in the early 1920s emanated from the boardrooms of foreign banks. The author's interest in the way financial concerns have shaped foreign policy began with the discovery that the Lloyd...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. — 342 p. Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations...
The Free Press, 2005. — 562 p. Chiang Kai-shek was the man who lost China to the Communists. As leader of the nationalist movement, the Kuomintang, Chiang established himself as head of the government in Nanking in 1928. Yet although he laid claim to power throughout the 1930s and was the only Chinese figure of sufficient stature to attend a conference with Churchill and...
Eland Publishing, 2018. — 256 p. Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of southwest China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to get to know the local traders, merchants, inn-keepers and artisans to decide which to back with a loan from the cooperative movement. A Russian by birth, due to his extraordinary skill in...
St. Martin’s Press, 2016. — 455 p. On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily Hahn was a legendary New Yorker writer who would cover China for nearly fifty years, and play an integral part in opening Asia up...
Routledge, 2018. — 235 p. Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group, this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical, social, cultural and political spaces of wartime China, where their political engagement, knowledge-making, and network-building in support of 'national resistance and reconstruction' (kangzhan...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 368 p. The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the twentieth century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign before this notorious massacre has never been told in its entirety. Nanjing 1937 by Peter Harmsen fills this gap....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 288 p. The events of 1949 reverberated across the world and throughout the rest of the 20th-century. That monumental year saw the dramatic collapse of Chiang Kai-sheks pro-Western Nationalist government, overthrown by Mao Zedong and his newly-founded, Communist-controlled, Peoples Republic of China. China 1949 follows the huge armies that swarmed...
University of Hawaii Press, 2018. — 437 p. The Northern Expedition was a military campaign launched by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Kuomintang, also known as the "Chinese Nationalist Party", against the Beiyang government and other regional warlords in 1926. The purpose of the campaign was to reunify China, which had become fragmented in the aftermath of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 160 p. The 1937-1945 war between China and Japan was one of the most bitter conflicts of the twentieth century. It was a struggle between the two dominant peoples of Asia. Millions of soldiers fought on each side and millions of soldiers and civilians died. Philip Jowett's book is one of the first photographic histories of this devastating...
Viking, 2020. — 384 p. Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most glamorous in the world. Built by Victor Sassoon--billionaire playboy and scion of the Sassoon dynasty--the hotel hosts a who's who of global celebrities: Noel Coward has written a draft of Private Lives in his suite and Charlie Chaplin has entertained his...
Marshall Cavendish International, 2018. — 432 p. The Unfinished Revolution is a superb new biography of Sun Yat-sen, whose life, like the confusion of his time, is not easy to interpret. His political career was marked mostly by setbacks, yet he became a cult figure in China after his death. Today he is the only 20th-century Chinese leader to be widely revered on both sides of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 271 p. This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumstances of cement manufacturing in nineteenth-...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2018. — 476 p. A nuanced history of the doomed diplomatic mission that turned the tides of the Chinese Civil War. Following the phenomenal success of General George C. Marshall's leadership of the American army during World War II, he was the standout candidate for a vital international mission: brokering a coalition government between China's warring...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 298 p. China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945-1949 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...
Routledge, 2010. — 224 p. The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-à-vis post-Qing China’s ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China’s Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security. The Chinese Revolution of 1911, initiated by Sun Yat-sen,...
University Press of Kansas, 2012. — 465 p. Japan's invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated. The southern theater proved a more difficult challenge for Japan because of its enormous size, diverse terrain, and poor infrastructure, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a formidable stand that produced a...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. — 464 p. The epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan. For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 576 p. Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937–1945 is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. The work integrates Chinese, Japanese and Western sources to examine the details of the structure and weapons of the period. Recent scholarship has contributed...
Simon and Schuster, 2009. — 787 p. This book revolves around a fascinating, manipulative woman and her family who were largely responsible for dragging China into the modern world. Soong May-ling, or Madame Chiang as she was known, is uniquely positioned at the heart of this story. As her husband came to represent the hopes of the West in the East, she acted as his adviser,...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 735 p. An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures. Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican China, a hero of the Second World...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 753 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-937389-5 During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local women and the spread of...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999. — 544 p. Many books have tried to analyze the reasons for the Chinese communist success in China's 1945-1949 civil war, but Suzanne Pepper's seminal work was the first and remains the only comprehensive analysis of how the ruling Nationalists lost that war_not just militarily, but by alienating the civilian population through corruption...
Routledge, 2002. — 142 p. Following the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 and the “warlord” period of the teens and twenties, the Nationalist Government attempted to reestablish central control over Huai River management as part of its national reconstruction program. One of the first institutions created by the Nationalist Government was the Huai River Conservancy...
Exisle Publishing, 2022. — 255 p. Acclaimed historian Stephen Robinson brings to life a legendary last stand. Shanghai 1937. With invading Japanese troops poised to capture one of the world’s greatest cities after almost three months of brutal urban warfare, the Chinese Army begins to retreat – except for a single battalion that stays behind to fight. These soldiers led by...
Routledge, 1994. — 414 p. These essays present fresh insights into the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), from its founding in 1920 to its assumption of state power in 1949. They draw upon considerable new archival resources which have recently become available.
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. — 725 p. The Massacre of Nanking took place in 1937, during the War of the Japanese Invasion of China. 75 years after the event, we are finally able to analyze and study what happened in Nanking on three levels: as an historical event, as a legal case, and as an object in the Chinese people’s collective consciousness.
Grove Press, 1994. — 544 p. The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao’s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one...
Routledge, 2016. — 328 p. First published in 1938, this book aims to be a ‘true and objective’ account of China’s recent history and its present circumstances at the time, drawing on the author’s thirty years of experience as a member of the British consular service in China. The recurrent themes of the period are examined: the efforts of the Chinese leadership to build a new...
Lieberthal and Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, 2020. — 360 p. In the two-decade period from 1928 to 1948, the proletarian themes and issues underlying the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological utterances were shrouded in rhetoric designed, perhaps, as much to disguise as to chart actual class strategies. Rhetoric notwithstanding, a careful analysis of such pronouncements is...
Lieberthal and Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, 1975. — 187 p. The Communist-organized Canton uprising of December 11, 1927, which proclaimed the Canton Commune or Soviet, proved to be a short-lived and disastrous affair lasting less than seventy-two hours. However, it immediately thereafter took on and long retained a meaningful symbolic role in the intricate fabric of...
Grove Press Edition, 2001. — 624 p. Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-1939 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-1944, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to...
Stanford University Press, 2014. — 336 p. Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulting in economic, military, and political domination. This...
Profile Books, 2017. — 368 p. China's War of Resistance against Japan, as WWII is known in China, was never about the defeat of Japan alone. China was also at war with itself. Between 1937 and 1949, a vicious revolutionary war between Nationalists and Communists, divided by radically different views about China's future, ravaged the country, killing millions and laying waste to...
Routledge, 2016. — 352 p. Attempts to shed new light on the Anglo-American rivalry in Republican China in the period between the defeat of Japan and the triumph of the Chinese Communists. This study contends that the USSR was not a major factor in this hard dispute.
Hong Kong University Press, 2015. — 192 p. By comparing peasant revolutions in Hunan and Jiangxi between 1926 and 1934, Revolutions as Organizational Change offers a new organizational perspective on peasant revolutions. Utilizing newly available historical materials in the People’s Republic of China in the reform era, it challenges the established view that the great Chinese...
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