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Labor and the Chinese Revolution : Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism, 1928–1948 / by Thomas, S. Bernard, 1921-

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A springboard to victory Shandong Province and Chinese communist military and financial strength, 1937-1945 / by Lai, Sherman Xiaogang

Table of Contents: “…The birth of the CCP military-fiscal state in Shandong -- Moving towards confrontation -- Escalation and the CCP's financial framework -- Institutions of economic control -- Pre-Pearl Harbor policy changes -- From the strategies of confrontation to Time-killing -- Perseverance -- Financial pressure, Xu Muqiao, and salt -- Turning point and encroachments -- Accessing the enemy's resources for post-war rivalry -- The campaign to reduce rents and interest rates -- Glossary -- Documents of the CCP central authorities -- Mao Zedong -- Authorities in Shandong -- Documents on economic affairs in wartime Shandong -- Archival materials -- Memoirs, collected works, and scholarly works -- English language sources.…”
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China : The Struggle for Power 1917–1972 / by Thornton, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…To build a Communist movement in China, 1917-1927 -- The "Soviet" experiment, 1927-1931 -- Defeat in Kiangsi, 1931-1934 -- From the long march to the united front, 1934-1937 -- The road to war, 1937-1941 -- World War II, the United States and China, 1941-1944 -- The United States, the Soviet Union and China, 1945 -- Strategies in conflict, 1946-1949 -- The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1959 -- The polarization of Communist politics, 1959-1965 -- The great proletarian cultural revolution II: protracted crisis, 1967-1968 -- China, the unsettled dragon, 1969-1972.…”
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A history of the modern Chinese Navy, 1840-2020 / by Elleman, Bruce A., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : Four Periods of modern Chinese naval development -- Introduction : China's modern navy in historical perspective : the importance of coastal defense strategies -- The origins of the "modern" navy under the Qing dynasty -- The first opium war and Chinese naval modernization -- The Chinese navy in the second opium war, in Okinawa, and in Annam -- China's navy and the sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 -- The Chinese navy's incomplete modernization and westernization -- The "new army" reforms and the Chinese navy's impact of the Xinhai revolution -- The nationalist navy from 1922 through 1938 -- The post-world war II nationalist navy through the Chinese civil war -- Founding the PRC and the early history of the PLAN -- The Chongqing mutiny and the creation of the PLAN -- PLAN's coastal defense and the nationalist navy's use of the off-shore Islands to blockade China -- The sino-Soviet alliance and the growth of the PLAN -- The nationalist navy and China's PLAN as an emerging regional navy -- Sino-Soviet conflict and the PRC decision to open relations with the United States -- Modernization, westernization, and geographic responsibilities of the PLAN -- China's historical and regional constraints and the future of the PLAN -- Conclusions.…”
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