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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lin, Hsiao-ting (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Accidental state [Texte imprimé] : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan / Hsiao-ting Lin
Publication : Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University press, 2016
Description matérielle : vii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index
"Accidental State explores the historical formation in the late 1940s and early 1950s
of a de facto state on Taiwan separate from the de facto state ruling the Chinese
mainland. The peculiar status of the Republic of China on Taiwan as an independent
state but not quite a nation-state is important for our understanding of modern East
Asia. Too often we have tended to view the existence of the two political entities
across the Taiwan Strait as a logical and most likely consequence of the Chinese civil
war fought bitterly after World War II between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. This
book offers a new historical outlook, arguing that the making of the separate Taiwan
state was by no means the result of deliberate forethought and planning either by
the United States, the Nationalists, or the Communists. The process of this statemaking
was intriguing, contingent, and inadvertent, and was never intended when the fate
of Taiwan was first planned by FDR, Chiang Kai-shek, and Winston Churchill in the
middle of World War II."--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Jiang, Jieshi (1887-1975)
Politique et gouvernement -- Taiwan -- 1945-1975
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- Taiwan -- 1945-1990
Relations extérieures -- Chine -- Taiwan -- 1945-1990
Relations extérieures -- Taiwan -- Chine -- 1945-1990
Relations extérieures -- Taiwan -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674659810. - ISBN 0674659813
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454764465
Notice n° :
FRBNF45476446
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1.. Taiwan in the balance -- ; 2.. A troubled beginning -- ; 3.. Reformulating U.S.
policy toward Taiwan -- ; 4.. Chiang Kai-shek in eclipse -- ; 5.. Last gasp on the
mainland -- ; 6.. Floating state, divided strategy -- ; 7.. U.S. military and security
policy goes underground -- ; 8.. The island redoubt reinvigorated -- ; 9.. Between
mainland and maritime strategies -- ; 10.. The making of an island state.