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"Negotiating China's Destiny" explains how China developed from a
country that hardly mattered internationally into the important
world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered
through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial
policies resulting in economic, military and political domination.
This shifted dramatically during WWII, when alliances needed to be
realigned, resulting in the evolution of China's relationships with
the USSR, the U.S., Britain, France, India, and Japan. Based on key
historical archives, memoirs, and periodicals from across East Asia
and the West, this book explains how China was able to become one
of the Allies with a seat on the Security Council, thus changing
the course of its future.
Breaking with U.S.-centered analyses which stressed the
incompetence of Chinese Nationalist diplomacy, "Negotiating China's
Destiny" makes the first sustained use of the diaries of Chiang
Kai-shek (which have only become available in the last few years)
and who is revealed as instrumental in asserting China's claims at
this pivotal point. "Negotiating China's Destiny" demonstrates that
China's concerns were far broader than previously acknowledged and
that despite the country's military weakness, it pursued its policy
of enhancing its international stature, recovering control over
borderlands it had lost to European imperialism in the nineteenth
and early twentieth century, and becoming recognized as an
important allied power with determination and success.
Throughout its modern history, China has suffered from
immensedestruction and loss of life from warfare. During its worst
periodof warfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War
(1937-45),millions of civilians lost their lives. For China, the
story of modernwar-related death and suffering has remained hidden.
Hundreds ofmassacres are still unrecognized by the outside world
and even by Chinaitself. The focus of this original hisotry is on
the social andpsychological, not the economic, costs of war on the
country.
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