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  • The Collapse of Nationalist China

    How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War

    by Parks M. Coble ...
    When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China, one of the victorious Allied Powers in 1945 and with the financial backing of the US. Yet less than four years later, he lost the China's civil war against the communists. Offering an insightful chronological treatment of the years 1944–1949, Parks Coble addresses why Chiang was unable to win ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • China’s War Reporters

    The Legacy of Resistance against Japan

    by Parks M. Coble ...
    When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang Kai-shek to resist Tokyo’s aggressive overtures. This was the war they wanted, convinced that their countrymen would triumph.Parks Coble recaptures the experiences of China’s war correspondents during the Sino–Japanese War of 1937–1945. He delves ... Read more

    $51.69 CAD

  • China’s War Reporters

    The Legacy of Resistance against Japan

    by Parks M. Coble ...
    When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang Kai-shek to resist Tokyo’s aggressive overtures. This was the war they wanted, convinced that their countrymen would triumph.Parks Coble recaptures the experiences of China’s war correspondents during the Sino–Japanese War of 1937–1945. He delves ... Read more

    $51.69 CAD

  • Living and Working in Wartime China

    by Brett Sheehan, Susan Glosser, Matthew Johnson, Man Bun Kwan, Maruta Takashi, Micah Muscolino, Parks Coble, Sophia Lee, Chaoguang Wang0, Di Wang1 ...
    Covering the years of Japanese invasion during World War II from 1937 to 1945, this essay collection recounts Chinese experiences of living and working under conditions of war. Each of the regimes that ruled a divided China—occupation governments, Chinese Nationalists, and Chinese Communists—demanded and glorified the full commitment of the people and their resources in the prosecution of war. ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Roads Not Taken

    The Struggle Of Opposition Parties In Twentieth-century China

    by Edward S Krebs, Roger Jeans, Parks Coble, Marilyn M. Levine ...
    Studies of the political history of twentieth-century China traditionally have been skewed toward a two-dimensional view of the major combatants: the Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang. Although their struggle undeniably has been the main story, it is neither the only nor the complete story. During the Republican period (1912-1949), many ed ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • China Reconstructs

    by Ko-wu Huang, Philip Yuen-sang Leung, Wang Ke-wen, Ka-che Yip, James P. Leibold, Odoric Y.K. Wou, Chau Chi Fung, Parks M. Coble ...
    China Reconstructs includes ten articles that investigate the reconstruction of modern China and provide different dimensions to the vibrant and multifaceted history of the country. The book discusses how prominent individuals, political parties, and ordinary people alike looked for ways to "reconstruct China" in a period of great political upheavals. ... Read more

    $84.19 CAD

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  • China in Disintegration

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  • Fractured Rebellion

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