Title Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan / Hsiao-ting Lin

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. SUBJECT Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 fast Jiang, Jieshi 1887-1975 gnd Subject HISTORY / Asia / China. Diplomatic relations Politics and government Gründung Internationale Politik Staat History. Asian history. Taiwan. General & world history. China. 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. History. SUBJECT Taiwan -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131987 Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132000 United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140097 Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131986 China -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024025 Subject China Taiwan United States Taiwan USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015026007 ISBN 0674969642 9780674969643 9780674969629 0674969626 9780674659810 0674659813

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