![]() | China at War : Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China China's mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time--from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 until the close of the Korean War in 1953--across such vast territory. As Hans van de Ven explains, the greatest puzzles lie in understanding China's simultaneous external and internal wars. Much is at stake, politically, in how this story is told. van de Ven Hans : Hans van de Ven is Professor of Modern Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. |
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