Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Aircraft Sales and the China Arms Embargo 1919-1929 The Early Development of the Nationalist Air Force, 1929-1931 The Expansion of the Chinese Military Aviation, 1932-1936 The Nationalist Air Force during the War, 1937-1940 U.S. Government Commitment to the Chinese Air Force, 1940-1941 U.S. Air Support for China and Sino-U.S. Disagreements, 1942-1945 U.S. Air Aid and the CCP's Anti-American Campaign, 1945-1949 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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The only comprehensive survey of the aviation aspect of Sino-American relations during the Chinese republican period.

About the Author

GUANGQIU XU is Associate Professor of History at Iowa Wesleyan College. He has published numerous articles in journals such as Modern Asian Studies, The Journal of Contemporary History, and The Journal of Asian History. He is currently working on another book on the U.S. Congress and its China policy.

Reviews

.,."fascinating new book...solid account of China's historic preoccupation with national unity and that country's perception of how a new technology of the times-airpower-could help achieve this goal."-Air & Space Power Journal

?...fascinating new book...solid account of China's historic preoccupation with national unity and that country's perception of how a new technology of the times-airpower-could help achieve this goal.?-Air & Space Power Journal

?This book represents the results of at least a fifteen-year study of the topic and is the most comprehensive date to work in English....Author Xu's extensive research, from the U.S. National Archives, the U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency, and domestic manuscript collections, to the Second Historical Archives, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, and manuscript collections, archives, and published works in Chinese from the PRC and Taiwan, has resulted in a fine study, capped off with endnotes following each chapter, and a complete bibliography, War Wings should be placed on library shelves among the other good books on the world's air forces.?-The Journal of Military History

..."fascinating new book...solid account of China's historic preoccupation with national unity and that country's perception of how a new technology of the times-airpower-could help achieve this goal."-Air & Space Power Journal

"This book represents the results of at least a fifteen-year study of the topic and is the most comprehensive date to work in English....Author Xu's extensive research, from the U.S. National Archives, the U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency, and domestic manuscript collections, to the Second Historical Archives, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, and manuscript collections, archives, and published works in Chinese from the PRC and Taiwan, has resulted in a fine study, capped off with endnotes following each chapter, and a complete bibliography, War Wings should be placed on library shelves among the other good books on the world's air forces."-The Journal of Military History