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Title

China's Wars : Rousing the Dragon, 1894-1949 / Philip Jowett.

Author

Jowett, Philip S., 1961-

Publication

Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2013.

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Description

408 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

By 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. 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. 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.

Subject

• Civil War (China : 1945-1949)
• Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
• 1644-1949
• Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
• China > History, Military > 1644-1912
• China > History, Military > 1912-1949
• China > History > Civil War, 1945-1949
• China

Genre/Form

• History
• Military history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-397) and index.

Contents

The sleeping dragon -- Brutal awakening, 1894-1911 -- Revolution, 1911-20 -- High warlordism, 1920-28 -- Undeclared conflict, 1928-37 -- Full-scale war, 1937-41 -- World war in the east, 1941-45 -- Red victory, 1946-49.

ISBN

• 9781782004073
• 1782004076
• 9781472806741 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472806734 (canceled/invalid)
• 1472806743 (canceled/invalid)
• 1472806735 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013388047

OCLC

• 828893085
• SCSB-13676324

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library