Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest)

Lew, Christopher R.; Leung, Edwin Pak-wah

ISBN 10: 0810878739 / ISBN 13: 9780810878730

Verlag: Scarecrow Press, 2013

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9780810878730

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest)
• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0810878739
• ISBN-13: 9780810878730
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War studies the longer, broader war and its chronology carefully tracks the major events. The introduction then provides a broad overview, describing the contending forces, and showing how the Communists come out on top. The details, and these are crucial, are laid out in over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries dealing with the opposing forces and parties, the major campaigns and battles, the Long March, and of course the leadership on both sides. This book, one of few such in English, provides a very solid basis for study, but that can be accomplished more effectively by consulting the titles listed in an extensive bibliography.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher R. Lew was recently a senior analyst on China for the Department of Defense and is presently the Principal Threat Intelligence Officer for Mandiant. He knows the country and the language, and has been studying and writing on the Chinese Civil War for many years, including recently The Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War. Edwin Pak-Wah Leung, who wrote the first edition, is one of the leading scholars on Modern China more generally and the Chinese Civil War in particular. He has taught at the University of Hong Kong, Peking University, and Columbia University among others. He has also published numerous articles and books, the most recent being Managing China’s Modernization.