{"product_id":"accidental-state-9780674659810","title":"Accidental State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the Two Chinas dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Hsiao-ting Lin challenges this conventional narrative, showing the many ways the ad hoc creation of this not fully sovereign state was accidental and serendipitous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pleasure to read… What Lin does in this fine book is examine the confused situation that existed from 1949 to 1954, leading up to the [Chinese Nationalist Party’s] realization that the game was up in China and the decision by the Americans to finally sign a formal treaty with Taipei. -- Bradley Winterton * Taipei Times *\u003cbr\u003eA model of rigorous scholarship and revisionist argument. Using a wide variety of primary materials, Lin shows the early Cold War in Asia was a time of fast and unexpected change and that the establishment of a new polity on Taiwan came about in highly contingent circumstances. This is a powerful and exciting argument to our understanding of modern Cold War and Chinese history. -- Rana Mitter, author of \u003ci\u003eForgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides an engaging account of the process by which Taiwan became the final redoubt of the ‘Republic of China’ following Chiang Kai-shek’s defeat in his civil war with the Communist Party of China. Under Lin’s skillful hands this seemingly straightforward story is revealed as a complicated Cold War tale of domestic and international intrigue, with consequences far beyond Taiwan’s emergence as an ‘accidental state.’ -- Edward A. McCord, author of \u003ci\u003eMilitary Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526055010647,"sku":"9780674659810","price":33.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674659810.jpg?v=1731862733","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/accidental-state-9780674659810","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}