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6. Trading Space for Time

  • Hans van de Ven
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China at War
This chapter is in the book China at War
© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. MAPS vii
  4. INTRODUCTION 1
  5. Part I: Staking a Nation
  6. 1. Chiang Kaishek: Saving China 21
  7. 2. Nation Building 32
  8. 3. Nanjing, Nanjing 44
  9. 4. To War 57
  10. Part II: Momentous Times
  11. 5. The Battle of Shanghai 75
  12. 6. Trading Space for Time 92
  13. 7. Regime Change 114
  14. 8. War Communism 133
  15. Part III: The Acid Test
  16. 9. The Allies at War 157
  17. 10. The Turning Point 179
  18. 11. Japan’s Surrender in China 203
  19. Part IV: The New China
  20. 12. Crash and Burn 221
  21. 13. National Liberation War 237
  22. 14. Exhaustion 256
  23. Epilogue: Transitions 271
  24. Notes 279
  25. Selected Bibliography 323
  26. Acknowledgements 336
  27. List of Illustrations 338
  28. Index 340
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674919525-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. MAPS vii
  4. INTRODUCTION 1
  5. Part I: Staking a Nation
  6. 1. Chiang Kaishek: Saving China 21
  7. 2. Nation Building 32
  8. 3. Nanjing, Nanjing 44
  9. 4. To War 57
  10. Part II: Momentous Times
  11. 5. The Battle of Shanghai 75
  12. 6. Trading Space for Time 92
  13. 7. Regime Change 114
  14. 8. War Communism 133
  15. Part III: The Acid Test
  16. 9. The Allies at War 157
  17. 10. The Turning Point 179
  18. 11. Japan’s Surrender in China 203
  19. Part IV: The New China
  20. 12. Crash and Burn 221
  21. 13. National Liberation War 237
  22. 14. Exhaustion 256
  23. Epilogue: Transitions 271
  24. Notes 279
  25. Selected Bibliography 323
  26. Acknowledgements 336
  27. List of Illustrations 338
  28. Index 340
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