China at War
Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
Ranked #79 in Korean History
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.
Today in its official history and public commemorations, the People's Republic asserts Chinese unity against Japan during World War II. But... more
Today in its official history and public commemorations, the People's Republic asserts Chinese unity against Japan during World War II. But... more
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