The Sian Incident : a pivotal point in modern Chinese history / by Tien-wei Wu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wu, Tien-wei.

Series:

Michigan monographs in Chinese studies ; no. 26.

Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies ; no. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--Xi'an Incident, 1936.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : charts, maps; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 1976.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

When Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Sian in the fall of 1936 and laid plans for launching his last campaign against the Red Army with an expectation of exterminating it in a month, he badly misjudged the mood of the Tungpei (Northeast) Army and more so its leader, Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the Young Marshal. Refusing to fight the Communists, Chang with the loyal support of his officers staged a coup d'état by kidnapping Chiang Kai-shek for two weeks at Sian. Almost forty years after the melodrama was over, the Sian Incident still absorbs much attention from both Chinese and Western scholars as well as the reading public. The Sian Incident attempts to bring together whatever information has been thus far gleaned about the subject, and to cover all aspects and controversies involved in it. [1, xi, xii]

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 255-271.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780472128143

0472128140

9780892640263

089264026X

OCLC:

1184509857

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access