People's wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam / Marc Opper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Opper, Marc, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

Chinese

English

Vietnamese

Subjects (All):

China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949.

China.

China--History--1937-1945.

Malaya--History--Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960.

Malaya.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2019]

Summary:

"People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam explains why some insurgencies collapse after a military defeat while under other circumstances insurgents are able to maintain influence, re-build strength, and ultimately defeat the government. The author argues that ultimate victory in civil wars rests on the size of the coalition of social groups established by each side during the conflict. When insurgents establish broad social coalitions (relative to the incumbent), their movement will persist even when military defeats lead to loss of control of territory because they enjoy the support of the civilian population and civilians will not defect to the incumbent. By contrast, when insurgents establish narrow coalitions, civilian compliance is solely a product of coercion. Where insurgents implement such governing strategies, battlefield defeats translate into political defeats and bring about a collapse of the insurgency because civilians defect to the incumbent. The empirical chapters of the book consist of six case studies of the most consequential insurgencies of the 20th century including that led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1927 to 1949, the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), and the Vietnam War (1960-1975)."

"People's Wars breaks new ground in systematically analyzing and comparing these three canonical cases of insurgency. The case studies of China and Malaya make use of Chinese-language archival sources, many of which have never before been used and provide an unprecedented level of detail into the workings of successful and unsuccessful insurgencies. The book is adopts an interdisciplinary approach and will be of interest of both political scientists and historians.

Contents:

Chapter 1 : Introduction

Chapter 2: A theory of rebel institutional persistence

Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931-1934

Chapter 4: The Three-Year Guerilla War, 1935-1937

Chapter 5: The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, 1937-1945

Chapter 6: The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, 1945-1949

Chapter 7: The Malayan emergency, 1948-1950

Chapter 8: The Vietnam War, 1960-1975

Chapter 9: Fighting the people, fighting for the people

Chinese and Vietnamese appendix

Bibliography Index.

Notes:

Includes Chinese and Vietnamese appendix (pages 358-374).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-404).

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472901258

0472901257

9780472126576

0472126571

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access