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Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 (Twentieth-Century Battles) Hardcover – Download: Adobe Reader, August 10, 2015
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The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China was "lost." Despite their significance, there have been few studies in English of the war's major campaigns. The Liao-Shen Campaign was the final act in the struggle for control of China's northeast. After the Soviet defeat of Japan in Manchuria, Communist Chinese and then Nationalist troops moved into this strategically important area. China's largest industrial base and a major source of coal, Manchuria had extensive railways and key ports (both still under Soviet control). When American mediation over control of Manchuria failed, full-scale civil war broke out. By spring of 1946, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist armies had occupied most of the southern, economically developed part of Manchuria, pushing Communist forces north of the Songhua (Sungari) River. But over the next two years, the tide would turn. The Communists isolated the Nationalist armies and mounted a major campaign aimed at destroying the Kuomintang forces. This is the story of that campaign and its outcome, which were to have such far-reaching consequences.
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherIndiana University Press
- Publication dateAugust 10, 2015
- Dimensions6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
- ISBN-100253016924
- ISBN-13978-0253016928
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"Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China is more than a fluidly written battle narrative or operational history. By tapping an impressive array of archival materials, published document collections, and memoirs, Harold Tanner has put the Liao-Shen Campaign in the larger context of the Chinese Civil War and significantly advanced our understanding of the military history of modern China."―Michigan War Studies Review
"The Liao-Shen campaign is very important and well-deserving of the book's title."―Mark Wilkinson, Virginia Military Institute
"Not just a military history of the campaign, but a consideration of its broad diplomatic significance and its place in historical memory. Will add significantly to our existing knowledge of the Chinese Civil War."―Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong
"A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China. A compelling narrative that grips one's attention from outset and doesn't let go until the last paragraph."―Steven I. Levine, author, Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948
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A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China. A compelling narrative that grips one's attention from outset and doesn't let go until the last paragraph.
-- Steven I. LevineAbout the Author
Harold Tanner is Professor of History and Fellow of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. A specialist in twentieth-century and contemporary China and Chinese military history, he is the author of The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946 (IUP, 2012) and China: A History.
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- Publisher : Indiana University Press; Illustrated edition (August 10, 2015)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0253016924
- ISBN-13 : 978-0253016928
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,209,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,032 in Chinese History (Books)
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About the author
Harold Tanner is a native of Princeton, New Jersey. As he grew up, he realised that he had absolutely no desire to have a normal life, job, or career. He received a valuable, but checkered (particularly in terms of grades) education at Friends World College on Long Island and at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire and Arundel, U.K. During and after a sometimes bumpy academic career, he managed to hitchhike in Scotland and Europe, study in Nepal with the Experiment in International Learning, work on farms, factories, and an orchard, visit India and Thailand, begin learning Chinese, and travel for six months (in 1984) in China. As reality began to close in, he packed himself onto the Trans-Siberian express from Beijing to Moscow, went on to London, and began his studies of Chinese politics, law, and culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Nine years later, he had inexplicably spent several years in China, earned an M.A. from SOAS and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and found a job teaching Chinese history at the University of North Texas. He is still there, and has compromised with normality enought to have a family, a dog, a house, and a stable income. But he still likes to travel. He is the author of two books and is working on two more.
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One question I was left wondering, and one Prof Tanner would have been more than well equipped to tackle, is why the American Imperialists (the author kept calling them this) keep insisting to support rotten stooges like CKS?
While the book does offer discussion of Soviet and American interventions (or lack thereof), its overall intent is to discuss the adaptations that Lin Biao and his generals made, and the issues ongoing within the KMT, that led up to the KMT's disastrous defeats in 1948. For example, the PLA was able to successfully shift from guerrilla/mobile warfare to the pitched, city-taking strategies seen at Jinzhou and Changchun. Meanwhile, the KMT repeatedly had issues with military commanders taking liberties in interpreting and executing Chiang's directives. If you are interested in these types of issues and want to "get inside the heads" of CCP and KMT generals, this book is for you.
The book does get a bit "academic" at times, but the main points in the bigger context were always clearly present. I appreciate and applaud Dr. Tanner in helping me gain a better understanding of the Chinese Civil War.
I personally anticipated a work on such proxy war factors and if possible, impacts from frameworks of Yalta Pact on later division of China along Taiwan Strait. Without analyses of such factors, we cannot gain a clear picture of how Chiang lost China.