Chiang Kai-shek’s “secret deal” at Xian and the start of the Sino-Japanese War

Chiang Kai-shek’s “secret deal” at Xian and the start of the Sino-Japanese War

Using newly available archives, particularly the diary and the presidential papers of Chiang Kai-shek, this article challenges the conventional interpretations of the Xian Incident (1936), in particular the widely held belief that the kidnapping of China’s leader Chiang by two rebellious generals fo...

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Main Author: Tsang, Steve
Format: Article
Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Subjects:
Chiang Kai-shek ; Zhou En lai ; Zhang Xueliang ; Yang Hucheng ; T.V. Soong ; Josef Stalin ; Mao Zedong ; Chiang Ching-kuo ; Xian ; united front ; Marco Polo Bridge Incident ; Shanghai battle ; Sino-Japanese War ; War of Resistance ; Kuomintang ; Chinese Communist Party ; Soviet military aid
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32387/

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