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“larry wortzel”

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  • Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military History

    by Larry M. Wortzel ...
    This study examines the dissolution of China's dynastic order in the face of corruption, mismanagement, and conflicts with powerful western nations; the interactions between the Nationalist government of the Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party and the Soviet Communist International, and the emergence of the modern Chinese military.Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military History ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The Dragon Extends its Reach

    Chinese Military Power Goes Global

    by Larry M. Wortzel ...
    China has evolved from a nation with local and regional security interests to a major economic and political power with global interests, investments, and political commitments. It now requires a military that can project itself around the globe, albeit on a limited scale, to secure its interests. Therefore, as Larry M. Wortzel explains, the Chinese Communist Party leadership has charged the ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • The Political Logic of the US–China Trade War

    by Greg Moore, Benjamin Ho, Michael Fowler, Steve Hess, Ngeow (Peter) Chow-Bing, R. Lincoln Hines, Zhimin Lin, Robert Sutter, Larry Wortzel, Chung-chian Teng, Yeh-chung Lu0, Gordon C. K. Cheung1, Jack Zhang2, Dean Chen3, Shiping Hua5 ...
    This is the first comprehensive study by the world’s leading scholars about the political logic of the U.S.-China trade war that started during the Trump administration. The book is divided into three parts. The first part looks at changed leadership styles of the two countries in the last few years. It also examines the liberal international order since World War II in which the trade war emerged ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Zhou Enlai

    The Last Perfect Revolutionary

    by Gao Wenqian ...
    Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of ... Read more

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  • The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an ... Read more

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  • Zhou Enlai

    A Life

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  • A Military History of China

    Edited by David A. Graff, Robin Higham ...
    Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes of the twentieth century. China's ability to sustain complex warfare on a very large scale ... Read more

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    The Unending Conflict in Korea

    by Sheila Miyoshi Jager ...
    A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving impact on the world.Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood war, one that risks involving the world’s superpowers—again. Her sweeping narrative ranges from the ... Read more

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  • Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China

    The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948

    by Harold M. Tanner ...
    Series series Twentieth-Century Battles
    "A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China." —Steven I. Levine author, Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948)The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces was a major blow to U.S. interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Civil War

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    by Michael Lynch ...
    Series series Essential Histories
    In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history.Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. In this illustrated history, bestselling historian Dr Michael Lynch examines how the long struggle between Chiang ... Read more

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