Christopher R. Lew was recently a senior analyst on China for the
Department of Defense and is presently the Principal Threat
Intelligence Officer for Mandiant. He knows the country and the
language, and has been studying and writing on the Chinese Civil
War for many years, including recently The Third Chinese
Revolutionary Civil War.
Edwin Pak-Wah Leung, who wrote the first edition, is one of the
leading scholars on Modern China more generally and the Chinese
Civil War in particular. He has taught at the University of Hong
Kong, Peking University, and Columbia University among others. He
has also published numerous articles and books, the most recent
being Managing China’s Modernization.
First published in 2002, and later reprinted as The A-to-Z of the
Chinese Civil War (2010), this 2d edition has over 100 more pages
of text. Lew, a U.S. Army veteran, has substantially revised and
expanded the contents of 1st edition. The 12-page introduction
provides the necessary background overview that one needs to
understand this conflict, which is also a part of the Second World
War and the Cold War. There are over 200 entries describing
critical events, important personages, troop movements,
proclamations, organizational structure, and foreign involvement.
There are plentiful see and see also references, and highlighted
words in the text indicate the cross-referencing to other entries,
where one can look for more information. . . .This sturdily bound
work is the main English-language reference tool for this event,
and is available online as well through EBRARY and EBSCO e-book
collections. It complements Lawrence R. Sullivan’s Historical
Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party (see ARBA 2013, entry
638). It is suitable for the reference collections of all academic
and large public libraries, especially those lacking the 1st
edition.
*American Reference Books Annual*
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