The Tormented Alliance : American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941-1949 / Zach Fredman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fredman, Zach, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--China.

World War, 1939-1945.

United States--Armed Forces--China--History--20th century.

United States.

United States--Military relations--China.

China--History--1937-1945.

China.

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

China--Foreign relations--1912-1949.

United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.

China--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

Drawing on archives from all of the areas in China where US forces deployed during the 1940s, this book examines the formation, evolution, and undoing of the alliance between the United States and the Republic of China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War.

Contents:

Chronology of Wartime Sino-American Relations and the U.S. Military Presence in China

Making Our Friends at Home: China's Hostel Program

Communicating without Understanding: China's Interpreter Program

Unequal Partners: Military-to-Military Relations

Living with the U.S. Military: Chinese Civilians

GIs and Jeep Girls: Sexual Relations

The Postwar Occupation

Epilogue: The Occupation of China's Long Shadow.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 12, 2024).

Also issued in print: 2022.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908568-0-7

979-88-908568-1-4

1-4696-6958-7

1-4696-6960-9

OCLC:

1338298342