John King Fairbank
Birth date: May 24, 1907
Died: September 14, 1991
John King Fairbank's Books
Tuchman appears to be attempting two disparate things with this book: to tell the story of Joseph Stillwell's career in the military and to tell the story of US intervention in China from the (first) Chinese revolution to the expulsion of the Kuomintang. She succeeds at the former a lot more than th...
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The final chapter deals with Taiwan - it is a brief, serviceable account of the political/economic origins of modern Taiwan. In closing, this is a useful volume.Ch. 4, by MacFarquhar, deals with the transition -- the fall of Lin Biao, the rise of the Gang of Four, Mao's final descent, death -- the ...