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A military history of modern China : from the Manchu conquest to Tian'anmen Square
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A military history of modern China : from the Manchu conquest to Tian'anmen Square

Author: Peter M Worthing
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter M Worthing
ISBN: 9780275987800 0275987809
OCLC Number: 131069532
Description: viii, 226 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: War and the military in traditional China -- Manchu conquest and the Qing dynasty -- The Anglo-Chinese wars, 1839-1860 -- The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 1851-1864 -- At war with France and Japan, 1864-1895 -- The new armies and the 1911 revolution, 1895-1916 -- Warlords and the Northern Expedition, 1916-1928 -- Nationalist and Communist armies, 1927-1937 -- Manchuria and the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945 -- The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949 -- China and the Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Border conflicts: Jinmen, India, and the USSR, 1958-1969 -- China, Indochina, and the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War -- The Chinese military since 1980.
Responsibility: Peter Worthing.
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