Books written by Hans van de Ven
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The Chinese Communist Party
Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party's relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary adaptability ...
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The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives
A mosaic of lives and voices illustrating the history of the Chinese Communist Party over the last hundred years.
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War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945
In this book, van de Ven investigates the myths and truths of Nationalist resistance including issues such as: the role of the US in East Asia during the Second World War the achievements of Chiang Kaishek as Nationalist leader the ...
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China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
As Hans van de Ven explains, the greatest puzzles lie in understanding China’s simultaneous external and internal wars. Much is at stake, politically, in how this story is told.
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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World
This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.
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Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China
The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China Hans Van de Ven. BIBLIOGRAPHY Fairbank, John, ed. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. ... H. B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China.
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The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945
This project offers the first English-language general history of military operations during the Sino-Japanese war based on Japanese, Chinese, and Western sources.
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Warfare in Chinese History
... languages include Mark Mancall , Russia and China : Their diplomatic relations to 1728 ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press , 1971 ) ; Clifford M. Foust , Muscovite and mandarin : Russia's trade with China and its setting , 1727 ...
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The Chinese Communist Party
Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party's relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary adaptability ...
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Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II
... Mao Zhu Wang guanyu cici yanzhong de touxiang weiji yi bei zhizhi zhi Peng Zuo Nie Peng Liu Deng deng dian ... Guogong guanxi bianhua ji wo zhi duice zhi Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Liu Shaoqi dian” [Telegram from Mao Zedong to Zhou Enlai ...