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Contributions in Military Studies: War Wings : The United States and Chinese Military Aviation, 1929-1949 by Guangqiu Xu (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-100313320047

ISBN-139780313320040

eBay Product ID (ePID)1856605

Product Key Features

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWar Wings : the United States and Chinese Military Aviation, 1929-1949

SubjectMilitary Science, Military / General, Military / United States, Asia / China

Publication Year2001

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, History

AuthorGuangqiu Xu

SeriesContributions in Military Studies

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight19.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2001-023315

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"...fascinating new book...solid account of China's historic preoccupation with national unity and that country's perception of how a new technology of the times-airpower-could help achieve this goal." Air & Space Power Journal, "This book represents the results of at least a fifteen-year study of the topic and is the most comprehensive date to work in English....Author Xu's extensive research, from the U.S. National Archives, the U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency, and domestic manuscript collections, to the Second Historical Archives, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, and manuscript collections, archives, and published works in Chinese from the PRC and Taiwan, has resulted in a fine study, capped off with endnotes following each chapter, and a complete bibliography, War Wings should be placed on library shelves among the other good books on the world's air forces." The Journal of Military History

Series Volume NumberNo. 211

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal358.4/00951/0904

Table Of ContentPreface Introduction Aircraft Sales and the China Arms Embargo 1919-1929 The Early Development of the Nationalist Air Force, 1929-1931 The Expansion of the Chinese Military Aviation, 1932-1936 The Nationalist Air Force during the War, 1937-1940 U.S. Government Commitment to the Chinese Air Force, 1940-1941 U.S. Air Support for China and Sino-U.S. Disagreements, 1942-1945 U.S. Air Aid and the CCP's Anti-American Campaign, 1945-1949 Conclusion Bibliography Index

SynopsisBased on extensive research in China, the United States, and Great Britain, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the aviation aspect of Sino-American relations during the Chinese republican period. Xu reveals new information about the important U.S. role in assisting the birth and development of both military and civil aviation in China. Analyzing the significance of air power in both its military and political contexts, Xu argues that the Nationalist Air Force considerably strengthened the Nationalist government's political and military positions without changing its existent power structure and temperament. The study also examines the role air power played in the violent partisan and patriotic power struggles within China, which illustrates how deeply China's military modernization became intertwined with competing foreign interests. Xu's discussion of the arms trading policies of various foreign powers prior to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of the 1930s is particularly insightful and revealing. Although America's contribution to the establishment of Chinese aviation was at times undertaken with hesitation, U.S. assistance would ultimately change the balance of power in East Asia.

LC Classification NumberUG635