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Analyzes an enigmatic figure at the peak of his influence in China, showing how his improvisational approach to political problems brought remarkable successes, but also ultimate defeat. From 1935 to…
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Sven Hedin,Bernard Norbelie
This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
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Sven Hedin
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
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Paul M A Linebarger
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang’s classic work, first published in 1947, examines the challenges facing the modernization of China - from the humiliation of the unequal treaties, through to the struggles of the first…
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Jonathan Fenby
The first major English-language biography of one of the key figures of the twentieth century – the man who lost China to the Communists.
Robert Berkov
This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Jay Taylor
One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the…
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May-Ling Soong Chiang
Basil Miller
David Rooney
Joe Stilwell, known as Vinegar Joe for his caustic personality, was stationed in Burma during World War II and famously differed in strategy from other commanders in his division. In…
With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive new biography of Chiang Kai-Shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of nationalist China’s Generalissimo…
Laura Tyson Li
In a life that spanned the 20th century (1898-2003), Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was inextricably entwined with China’s tempestuous evolution from the imperial Qing Dynasty to the end of colonialism in…
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek
Ronald Ian Heiferman
This historical book chronicles the Cairo Conference, the events leading up to the conference, and the consequences of the decisions, understandings, and misunderstandings that took place at the summit. This…
Owen Lattimore,Fujiko Isono
