An authoritative account of the brutal wars that wracked China between 1937 and 1952, including China's war with Japan, the Chinese Civil War, and the Korean War, out of which New China and modern East Asia emerged
Hans van de Ven is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China. At the University of Cambridge he serves as Professor of Modern Chinese History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the author of Breaking with the Past: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and Global Origins of Modernity in China, War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945 and From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927. The Battle for China, a book of essays he co-edited, received the 2012 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History.
China in the twentieth century was as much at war with itself as
with Japan and, in Korea, with the United States. In this
outstanding account of modern China through the lens of war, van de
Ven narrates this history with immense clarity, while also taking
care to show how the violence of these decades shaped, and often
consumed, the lives of individual Chinese fated to live in
difficult times.
*Timothy Brook, author of 'Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local
Elites in Wartime China'*
A masterful narrative of the fifteen long years of war during which
China was destroyed and transformed. For readers interested in
military history on a global scale who may or may not have much
knowledge of modern Chinese history, this book will become a
classic of its kind.
*Stephen MacKinnon, Arizona State University*
China at War is far superior to any comparable treatment I have
seen. Sober, comprehensive, and well written, it is a book that
will last.
*Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania*
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