Imagining China's Madrid in Manchuria

Cheng, Victor Shiu

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Imagining China's Madrid in Manchuria

Date

2005

Authors

Cheng, Victor Shiu

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

Abstract

This article is an interdisciplinary study of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) military decision making at the outset of the civil war. The historical phenomenon of the Communists' invocation of "Madrid" is studied in the context of the Chinese civil war in