Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II

Zusatztext "Brimming with new revelations and fresh insights! this book greatly advances our understanding of Chiang Kai-shek's diplomacy during World War II. There is no better introduction to the subject than this collection of penetrating essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The volume is filled with cutting-edge research for the specialists but is also accessible to the general public." Informationen zum Autor Stephen MacKinnon is Professor of History and former Director of the Center for Asian Studies at Arizona State University. Klappentext Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulting in economic, military, and political domination. This shifted dramatically during WWII, when alliances needed to be realigned, resulting in the evolution of China's relationships with the USSR, the U.S., Britain, France, India, and Japan. Based on key historical archives, memoirs, and periodicals from across East Asia and the West, this book explains how China was able to become one of the Allies with a seat on the Security Council, thus changing the course of its future. Breaking with U.S.-centered analyses which stressed the incompetence of Chinese Nationalist diplomacy, Negotiating China's Destiny makes the first sustained use of the diaries of Chiang Kai-shek (which have only become available in the last few years) and who is revealed as instrumental in asserting China's claims at this pivotal point. Negotiating China's Destiny demonstrates that China's concerns were far broader than previously acknowledged and that despite the country's military weakness, it pursued its policy of enhancing its international stature, recovering control over borderlands it had lost to European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and becoming recognized as an important allied power with determination and success. Zusammenfassung Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II! China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulting in economic! military! and political domination. This shifted dramatically during WWII! when alliances needed to be realigned! resulting in the evolution of China's relationships with the USSR! the U.S.! Britain! France! India! and Japan. Based on key historical archives! memoirs! and periodicals from across East Asia and the West! this book explains how China was able to become one of the Allies with a seat on the Security Council! thus changing the course of its future. Breaking with U.S.-centered analyses which stressed the incompetence of Chinese Nationalist diplomacy! Negotiating China's Destiny makes the first sustained use of the diaries of Chiang Kai-shek (which have only become available in the last few years) and who is revealed as instrumental in asserting China's claims at this pivotal point. Negotiating China's Destiny demonstrates that China's concerns were far broader than previously acknowledged and that despite the country's military weakness! it pursued its policy of enhancing its international stature! recovering control over borderlands it had lost to European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth century! and becoming recognized as an important allied power with determination and success. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents and Abstracts 1 France's Deluded Quest for Allies

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