دانلود کتاب China 1949: Year of Revolution

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Cover page\nHalftitle page\nPraise page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nEpigraph\nCONTENTS\nFIGURES\nMAPS\nABBREVIATIONS\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nNOTES ON TRANSLITERATION\n1949 CHRONOLOGY\nPRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN 1949\nPrologue\n Notes\nIntroduction High noon in Nanjing\n Notes\n1 Adversaries\n ‘The enemy will not perish of himself’\n Making China ‘modern’\n Raising the Red Flag\n Chiang’s republic\n The Party and the peasants\n Yanan years\n Chiang: emboldened, embattled, eclipsed\n Notes\n2 ‘The event on the horizon’\n Watching, waiting, plotting, fleeing\n Beiping besieged\n The last gasp of Chinese liberalism\n Shanghai sunset\n Power plays\n Notes\n3 Peace postures\n Chiang’s short goodbye\n ‘Plucked like ripe fruit’: Beiping surrenders\n Li ‘takes charge’\n City life: Mao moves in\n The ‘peace general’ flies north\n ‘This is your last chance. Don’t lose it’\n Nanjing says ‘no’\n Notes\n4 ‘Offshore China’\n Taiwan: island refuge?\n Transferring the treasure\n Getting there\n Hong Kong: an imperial dilemma\n ‘A bit of a riddle’\n Typhoon shelter\n Tightening control\n Notes\n5 Crossing the river\n ‘Oh, the South is great!’\n The Yangtze is ‘worth 300,000 soldiers’\n A question of timing\n Agents of change: the ‘south-bound cadres’\n Ships and sailors\n Crossings, crises, collapse\n Notes\n6 Taking the cities\n ‘Overturning heaven and earth’\n Last hours in Nanjing\n Interlude\n The new order\n The ‘ex-ambassadors’\n Defence of a ‘dying cause’: the taking of Taiyuan\n The ‘huge test’: taking Shanghai\n Getting ready\n Nationalist end game\n ‘Calculated among the liberated’\n Shanghai’s new dawn\n Notes\n7 Parallel worlds\n Li licks his wounds\n ‘Chiang Kai-shek is our enemy’: Guangxi’s peace movement\n Lin Biao vs Bai Chongxi: a duel resumed\n ‘Scraping the bottom of the barrel’: the Nationalists in Guangzhou\n Land reform: the Nationalists ‘latch on’\n Chiang returns\n Beiping: re-casting the country\n Hong Kong: fortress or free port?\n On the move in south China\n Notes\n8 Mao’s new world\n ‘The CCP is here to stay for some time’\n ‘“You are dictatorial”: Dear Sirs, . . . that is exactly what we are’\n Rights and wrongs\n Restoring economic order\n Labour and capital\n ‘“Liberation” is intensely political’\n The ‘armour of the regime’\n Cornered and constrained: the ‘West’ gets ready to bow out\n New China’s new friends\n Notes\n9 End games\n ‘Our position is critical’\n Guangzhou conquered\n Hong Kong: tightrope walking\n Guangxi graveyard\n Filling out the frontiers\n Undignified exit: Chiang’s last days in the mainland\n Taiwan: living on borrowed time\n Notes\n10 Afterwards 1949’s long shadow\n Notes\nPRINCIPAL CHARACTERS AFTER 1949\nSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY\nINDEX