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Subtitle: Jiang Jieshi, Meiguo, yu jin dai Taiwan de xing su = Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan
By: Lin Xiaoting zhu, jiao ding ; Huang Zhongxian yi
Contributors: Huang, Zhongxian, 1964- translator
Edition: Chu ban
Series: Yuan zu xin shu -- 04; Yuan zu xin shu -- 4.
Publisher: Yuan zu wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si di er bian ji bu
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Xinbei Shi
Language: chi
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9789869442534
Subjects: History; Politics and government; Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations
Other titles: Jiang Jieshi, Meiguo, yu jin dai Taiwan de xing su; Accidental state :; Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan
Work titles: Accidental state
Description: "Accidental State explores the historical formation in the late 1940s and early 1950s of a de facto state on Taiwan separate from the de facto state ruling the Chinese mainland. The peculiar status of the Republic of China on Taiwan as an independent state but not quite a nation-state is important for our understanding of modern East Asia. Too often we have tended to view the existence of the two political entities across the Taiwan Strait as a logical and most likely consequence of the Chinese civil war fought bitterly after World War II between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. This book offers a new historical outlook, arguing that the making of the separate Taiwan state was by no means the result of deliberate forethought and planning either by the United States, the Nationalists, or the Communists. The process of this statemaking was intriguing, contingent, and inadvertent, and was never intended when the fate of Taiwan was first planned by FDR, Chiang Kai-shek, and Winston Churchill in the middle of World War II."--Provided by publisher of original English title.
Notes: Translation of: Accidental state: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan by Hsiao-ting Lin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364).