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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101782004076
ISBN-139781782004073
eBay Product ID (ePID)169515811
Product Key Features
Original LanguageEnglish
Book TitleChina's Wars : Rousing the Dragon 1894-1949
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicMilitary / World War II, Asia / General, Asia / China, World / Asian
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorPhilip Jowett
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight56.7 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-388047
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal355.00951
Table Of ContentIntroduction * Chapter 1: 'Brutal Awakening', China 1894-1911 * Chapter 2: 'Revolution', The Chinese Republic At War, 1911 -20 * Chapter 3: 'High Warlordism', The Major Warlord Conflicts 1920 -28 * Chapter 4: 'Undeclared Conflict', Japans Step By Step Aggression Against China, 1928 -37 * Chapter 5: 'Full Scale War', The Sino-Japanese War 1937 - 41 * Chapter 6: 'World War In The East', China As An Allied Power 1941-45 * Chapter 7: 'Red Victory', Civil War 1945- 49 * Index
SynopsisBy the end of the first decade of the 21st century, China had become one of the great powers of the modern world. Economically, politically, and militarily, its power and international reach is only exceeded by the United States, the world's one remaining superpower. Its military spending, though dwarfed by the United States, is over $100 billion a year and it is busy developing an aircraft carrier, a stealth fighter jet, and missiles that can shoot down satellites - all in an effort to project its power on a global scale. This is all a far cry from its position at the end of the 19th century, when it was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire upon whom the European colonial powers could impose their wishes at will. The period from the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 through to the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War ending in 1949 was one of near-constant conflict that saw China emerge as a fledgling new world power. Militarily at least, this is the defining period in Chinese history. This is the period that saw the breakdown of the traditional imperial system of control, under threat from a series of rebellions throughout the 19th century, and the rise of the warlords and civil war in 1911. Despite the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, the country was still riven by internal strife as different factions sought to control the fledgling state, while much of the power in the land was exercised by regional warlords in a constant state of conflict with one another. The 1920s saw the rise of two opposing revolutionary movements, the Kuomintang, led first by Sun Yat-Sen and later Chiang Kai-Shek, and the Chinese Communist Party, one of whose early leaders was Mao Tse-Tung. The Kuomintang managed to gain control of the majority of China by the late 1920s, and started a long running conflict with the Communists at the same time. The late 1920s also saw the first significant Japanese intervention in China, and in 1931 the Japanese took control of the whole of Manchuria. By 1937 this had escalated into out and out conflict with the Chinese, a conflict which would last till the Japanese defeat in World War II in 1945. Even then China had to struggle through four years of painful civil war before the Chinese Communist Party finally established control in 1949. In this new study Philip Jowett traces the complicated military history of China during these pivotal years, describing in detail the conflicts that forge the modern superpower that is China today., China is one of the great powers of the modern world. Yet in the late 19th century China was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire upon whom the European colonial powers could impose their wishes at will. China's Wars describes the series of conflicts from 1894 to 1949 that forged modern China, from colonial clashes such as the Boxer Rebellion, through the chaotic years of warlord domination to the Japanese invasion, the Second World War and the bitter Civil War that followed. Previously unpublished photographs, contemporary pictures and specially-commissioned maps illustrate these tumultuous events and the men who fought them, events that would end with the eventual triumph of the Communist Party and the rise of modern China.
LC Classification NumberDS775.4
