Counterrevolution in China : Wang Sheng and the Kuomintang

by Marks,Thomas A.

• ISBN13: 9780714647005
• ISBN10: 0714647004
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Spanning 60 years of modern Chinese history from the non-communist perspective, this work concentrates on Wan Sheng's career in relation to Chiang Kai-Shek's son Chiang Ching-Kuo. It shows that the Kuomintang were perfecting the methods that were to make Taiwan an East Asian "tiger economy" at the very point that they "lost" the mainland. It also provides an insight into Taiwan's efforts to aid South Vietnam and Cambodia from 1960 as the Indochina war unfolded.

Author Biography

Dr Thomas A. Marks is currently based at the Academy of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii where he teaches social sciences. A unique combination of soldier, freelance journalist and photographer, academic, and security consultant, he has reported for the past twenty years on conflicts the world over. His scholarly and journalistic works have been published in periodicals that include the Asian Wall Street Journal, Asia Pacific Defence Review, Counterterrorism and Security, Soldier of Fortune (as Chief Foreign Correspondent), and Small Wars and Insurgencies. His books include Making Revolution: The Insurgency of the Communist Party of Thailand in Structural Perspective, and The British Acquisition of Siamese Malaya (1896-1909), both published by White Lotus Press of Bangkok; and Maoist Insurgency Since Vietnam, published by Frank Cass, a Choice magazine selection as an 'Outstanding Academic Book of 1996.' Counterrevolution in China was completed while Dr Marks was on sabbatical as Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Militaries Research Society, Carmel, California.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii	(1)
List of Maps	viii	(1)
List of Figures	viii	(1)
Preface	ix
1. THE END OF AN ERA	1	(12)
Notes	11	(2)
2. JIANGXI: THE MAKING OF A COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY	13	(64)
Maoist Insurgency	16	(3)
A Youth in Longnan	19	(8)
Counterinsurgency and the Mobilization of the Populace	27	(6)
First Steps into the KMT Infrastructure	33	(4)
Joining the Elite	37	(7)
Gannan: Revolution in the Counterrevolution	44	(10)
Brave New World	54	(10)
Notes	64	(13)
3. CIVIL WAR: COMPETING REVOLUTIONS	77	(47)
Aftermath of War	83	(8)
End of the Youth Army	91	(11)
`Fighting Tigers' in Shanghai	102	(9)
End of the Old-Regime	111	(6)
Notes	117	(7)
4. TAIWAN: REVOLUTION IN EXILE	124	(72)
Reorganizing the Revolution	128	(12)
Political Warfare versus Intelligence	140	(7)
Reconstructing a Revolutionary Weapon	147	(10)
Trials in the Quest for Perfection	157	(10)
Political Warfare versus Internal Security	167	(14)
Notes	181	(15)
5. COUNTERREVOLUTION EXPORTED	196	(42)
Political Warfare in Vietnam	198	(13)
Political Warfare in Cambodia	211	(11)
Political Warfare in Strategic Context	222	(12)
Notes	234	(4)
6. STRATEGIC COUNTERREVOLUTION	238	(50)
Renewed Security Concerns	240	(9)
The Realities of Power	249	(9)
Liu Shao Kang -- Strategic Counterrevolution	258	(16)
On Into Exile	274	(4)
Notes	278	(10)
7. PARAGUAY: BACK TO JIANGXI	288	(27)
A Community in Search of Itself	291	(7)
Paraguay in Search of `Development'	298	(14)
Notes	312	(3)
8. A NEW ERA?	315	(8)
Notes	321	(2)
Bibliography	323	(18)
Index	341