"A well-organized and excellently researched work" ( H-War ) on one of the crucial battles of China's civil war. In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist withdrawal, but further pursuit was halted by a ceasefire brokered by the American general, George Marshall. Within three years, Mao Zedong's troops had captured Manchuria and would soon drive Chiang Kai-shek's forces off the ...
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"A well-organized and excellently researched work" ( H-War ) on one of the crucial battles of China's civil war. In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist withdrawal, but further pursuit was halted by a ceasefire brokered by the American general, George Marshall. Within three years, Mao Zedong's troops had captured Manchuria and would soon drive Chiang Kai-shek's forces off the mainland. Did Marshall, as Chiang later claimed, save the Communists and determine China's fate? Putting the battle into the context of the military and political struggles fought, Harold M. Tanner casts light on all sides of this historic confrontation and shows how the outcome has been, and continues to be, interpreted to suit the needs of competing visions of China's past and future. "A genuine addition to our knowledge about this battle and the Chinese civil war in general." --Mark Wilkinson, Virginia Military Institute
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New in New jacket. 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches. pp. 288. New. Pristine, unmarked. Photographs, maps. Recent study of the large battles in Manchuria during the Chinese Civil War, when the Nationalist forces seemed destined to win the war. Analysis of George C. Marshall's role in the cease-fire as well as Communist strategies during the temporary truce. // Shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xv, [3], 266, [4] pages. Includes Illustrations, Acknowledgments, A Note on Chinese Names, Notes, Bibliography, Index, 7 black and white maps, and 8 black and white photographs. Includes Chapters on Siping, 1946; Decisive Battle or Lost Opportunity? ; The Manchurian Chessboard, August-September 1945; The Communist Retreat, October-December 1945; George Marshall's Mission, December 1945-March 1946; The Second Battle of Siping: Phase One--From Outer Defense to stalemate, March-April 1946; The Second Battle of Siping: Phase Two--From Defense to Retreat, April--May 1946; The Chase and the Ceasefire, May--June 1946; and Visions of the Past and Future. Historian and professor Harold M. Tanner concentrates his scholarship on twentieth-century China and Japan, and the ways in which the modern world has influenced their development. In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Second Battle of Siping was a crucial turning point. The Nationalists' month-long assault on Siping, a strategic railway junction between the cities of Chenyang and Changchun, was part of a struggle by both sides to control as much of Manchuria as possible to in order to strengthen their bargaining positions in the cease-fire negotiations being conducted under the auspices of the American General George Marshall. The battle ended with a Communist withdrawal to the north of the Songhua River and a Nationalist pursuit, which came to a halt when both sides agreed to the terms that Marshall had worked out. Within three years, Mao Zedong's troops had captured Manchuria and would soon drive Chiang Kai-shek's forces off the mainland. Did Marshall, as Chiang later claimed, save the Communists and determine China's fate? Putting the battle into the context of the military and political struggles fought, Harold M. Tanner casts light on all sides of this historic confrontation and shows how the outcome has been, and continues to be, interpreted to suit the needs of competing visions of China's past and future.
