A military history of China /

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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)...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Graff, David Andrew, 1962- (Editor), Higham, Robin, 1925-2015 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2012.
Edition:Updated edition.
Subjects:
Strategic culture > China.
Culture stratégique > Chine.
HISTORY > Military > General.
Strategic culture.
China > History, Military.
Chine > Histoire militaire.
China.
Military history.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Robert Higham and David A. Graff
  • 2. Continuity and change / Edward L. Dreyer
  • 3. State making and state breaking / David A. Graff
  • 4. The northern frontier / David Wright
  • 5. Water forces and naval operations / Peter Lorge
  • 6. Military writings / Ralph D. Sawyer
  • 7. The Qing empire / Paul Lococo Jr.
  • 8. The Taiping rebellion : a military assessment of revolution and counterrevolution / Maochun Yu
  • 9. Beyond the marble boat : the transformation of the Chinese military, 1850-1911 / Richard S. Horowitz
  • 10. Warlordism in early republican China / Edward A. McCord
  • 11. The national army from Whampoa to 1949 / Chang Jui-te
  • 12. The Sino-Japanese conflict, 1931-1945 / Stephen R. MacKinnon
  • 13. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" : Mao and the Red Army / William Wei
  • 14. Always faithful : the PLA from 1949 to 1989 / Dennis J. Blasko
  • 15. China's foreign conflicts since 1949 / Larry M. Wortzel
  • 16. Recent developments in the Chinese military / June Teufel Dreyer.

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