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Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan

Lin, Hsiao-ting, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Subject: Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. / Taiwan History. / Taiwan Politics and government 1945-1975. / United States Foreign relations 1945-1953. / Taiwan Foreign relations 1945- / China Foreign relations.
• ISBN: 9780674659810, 0674659813

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS799.816.L55 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE