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The generalissimo : Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China
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- Creator
- Jay Taylor
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Harvard University Press paperback edition
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xii, 736 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, plan ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674060490, 9780674060494
- OCLC
- ocn694228269
- Reprint. Originally published: 2009. With a new postscript.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [609]-711) and index.
- Revolution. A neo-Confucian youth ; The northern expedition and civil war ; The Nanking decade -- War of resistance. The long war begins ; Chiang and is American allies ; The China Theatre ; Yalta, Manchuria, and post war strategy -- Civil war. Chimera of victory ; The great failure -- The island. Streams in desert ; Managing the protector ; Shifting dynamics ; Nixon and the last years