Accidental State - Chiang Kai-Shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan

Informationen zum Autor Hsiao-ting Lin is a Research Fellow and Curator of East Asian Collections at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Hsiao-ting Lin
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780674659810
• ISBN: 978-0-674-65981-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Taiwan, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History