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Accidental State
Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan
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Hsiao-ting Lin
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
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Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the Two Chinas dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Hsiao-ting Lin challenges this conventional narrative, showing the many ways the ad hoc creation of this not fully sovereign state was accidental and serendipitous.
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Lin Hsiao-ting :
Hsiao-ting Lin is a Research Fellow and Curator of East Asian Collections at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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A model of rigorous scholarship and revisionist argument. Using a wide variety of primary materials, Lin shows the early Cold War in Asia was a time of fast and unexpected change and that the establishment of a new polity on Taiwan came about in highly contingent circumstances. This is a powerful and exciting argument to our understanding of modern Cold War and Chinese history.
-- Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945
-- Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945
This book provides an engaging account of the process by which Taiwan became the final redoubt of the ‘Republic of China’ following Chiang Kai-shek’s defeat in his civil war with the Communist Party of China. Under Lin’s skillful hands this seemingly straightforward story is revealed as a complicated Cold War tale of domestic and international intrigue, with consequences far beyond Taiwan’s emergence as an ‘accidental state.’
-- Edward A. McCord, author of Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China
-- Edward A. McCord, author of Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China
A pleasure to read…What Lin does in this fine book is examine the confused situation that existed from 1949 to 1954, leading up to the [Chinese Nationalist Party’s] realization that the game was up in China and the decision by the Americans to finally sign a formal treaty with Taipei.
-- Bradley Winterton Taipei Times
-- Bradley Winterton Taipei Times
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Contents
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Introduction
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1. Taiwan in the Balance
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2. A Troubled Beginning
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3. Reformulating U.S. Policy toward Taiwan
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4. Chiang Kai - shek in Eclipse
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5. Last Gasp on the Mainland
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6. Floating State, Divided Strategy
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7. U.S. Military and Security Policy Goes Underground
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8. The Island Redoubt Reinvigorated
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9. Between Mainland and Maritime Strategies
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10. The Making of an Island State
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Conclusion
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Glossary of Names and Terms
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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March 14, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780674969643
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352
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17 halftones, 2 maps
eBook ISBN:
9780674969643
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