{"product_id":"decisive-encounters-9780804744843","title":"Decisive Encounters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two questions: Why was the war fought? And What were the immediate and lasting results of the Communists' victory? It also shows how campaigns were mounted against changes in politics, society and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Odd Arne Westad has written a key work on the civil-war period as well as an essential bibliographic starting point for further research.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe China Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This path-breaking, perceptive work merits wide circulation and systematic analysis.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is of fundamental importance to understanding twentieth-century Chinese history, comparative revolution, and early Cold War history. Weaving together strands of military, social, political, and international history, Westad provides by far the best empirically grounded, multi-archival, and comprehensive nationwide analysis of how the Chinese Communist Party achieved victory in the Chinese Civil War of 1946-1950.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Cold War Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offers meticulous research, drawing on classic reports, recent memoirs, and scholarship in Chinese, Russian, and English based on archival research. . . . More important, [Westad] weaves a grand, sweeping epic of social, cultural, and economic conflict that includes but goes beyond political and military battles. . . . Highly recommended for academic libraries and collections in Chinese history.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDecisive Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly readable, comprehensive, and reliable account of a war whose importance we all know but which nonetheless has received little attention.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePACIFIC AFFAIRS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This remarkable survey of a crucial period of Chinese history deserves to be widely read.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405551346007,"sku":"9780804744843","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804744843.jpg?v=1730492800","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decisive-encounters-9780804744843","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}