Making urban revolution in China
Subtitle: the CCP-GMD struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-1949
By: Joseph K.S. Yick.
Series: Studies on contemporary China
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: China -- History -- Civil war, 1945-1949.; Beijing (China) -- History.; Tianjin (China) -- History.
Description: The end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 brought not peace but renewed confrontation between Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang. The ensuing Civil War, at the threshold of the Cold War, held enormous significance for international strategic alliances, and in particular the interests of the United States in East Asia, and has been the subject of intense research and debate ever since. Joseph Yick's Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-1949, based partly on the rich new sources available in the PRC since 1978, rethinks the traditional interpretations of the Chinese Communist Party's victory in 1949 and makes a major contribution to the historiography of this period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-221) and index.
"An East gate book."