Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937-1949

by Lloyd E. Eastman and Professor of History Lloyd E Eastman

Book Overview

The question "Who lost China?" has provoked political vituperation and academic controversy ever since the Chinese Communists drove the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai-shek off the mainland in 1949. In this study based on a wide array of hitherto unused documentary sources, the author delves deeply into the inner workings of the Nationalist regime and concludes that the Nationalists collapsed largely as a result of their own failings. Most strikingly,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741867
• ISBN13: 9780804741866
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"