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Mao's Generals
Lanzin Xiang
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Description for Mao's Generals
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Mao's Generals reevaluates the military history of Mao Zedong's seizure of power in China using all original historical materials, confronting the history as recorded by the communist party-influenced historians. It disputes the total invincibility and brilliance of Mao in military affairs by restoring credit to the generals that made significant contributions to the communist victory.The focus falls mainly on a brilliant romantic poet named Chen Yi who founded the New Fourth Army with a group of brilliant young men and led peasant guerrillas to the victory that broke the Kuomintong's backbone. Despite his accomplishments, he could not deter his eventual ... Read more
Mao's Generals reevaluates the military history of Mao Zedong's seizure of power in China using all original historical materials, confronting the history as recorded by the communist party-influenced historians. It disputes the total invincibility and brilliance of Mao in military affairs by restoring credit to the generals that made significant contributions to the communist victory.The focus falls mainly on a brilliant romantic poet named Chen Yi who founded the New Fourth Army with a group of brilliant young men and led peasant guerrillas to the victory that broke the Kuomintong's backbone. Despite his accomplishments, he could not deter his eventual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761811299
SKU
V9780761811299
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About Lanzin Xiang
Lanzin Xiang is Associate Professor of International History at The Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
Reviews for Mao's Generals
Lanxin Xiang. . . has written a well-researched work that is part biography of Chen Yi and part military history of the Chinese Communist Revolution> But with the exception of Gregor Benton's pathbreaking work, this volume represents the first comprehensive English-language history of Chinese Comunist military activities, outside of the main Jiangxi/Yanan/Manchurian areas led by Mao Zedong, for theentire 1921-49 ... Read more