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EAST RIVER COLUMN: HONG KONG GUERRILLAS IN THE SECOND By Sui-jeung Chan **NEW**
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- ISBN-10
- 9622091938
- Book Title
- East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War
- Genre
- HISTORY
- ISBN
- 9789622091931
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hong KONG University Press
ISBN-10
9622091938
ISBN-13
9789622091931
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175790693
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Publication Name
East River Column : Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and after
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Asia / China
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
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"Here for the first time in English is a comprehensive account of the huge contribution made by Chinese guerrillas to Hong Kong's resistance in the Second World War. In rescuing this story from oblivion through 25 years of interviews and documentary research, Chan Sui-jeung has rendered a major service to the history of Hong Kong and Guangdong province."--Philip Snow, author of The Fall of Hong Kong, Here for the first time in English is a comprehensive account of the huge contribution made by Chinese guerrillas to Hong Kong's resistance in the Second World War. In rescuing this story from oblivion through 25 years of interviews and documentary research, Chan Sui-jeung has rendered a major service to the history of Hong Kong and Guangdong province., Much has been written about the Battle for Hong Kong and about the British Army Aid Group, but there is a dearth of written information about the exploits of the East River Guerrillas. Veterans will die and oral history sources will disappear over the ne|9789622091931|, "Here for the first time in English is a comprehensive account of the huge contribution made by Chinese guerrillas to Hong Kong's resistance in the Second World War. In rescuing this story from oblivion through 25 years of interviews and documentary research, Chan Sui-jeung has rendered a major service to the history of Hong Kong and Guangdong province."Philip Snow, author of The Fall of Hong Kong, "Here for the first time in English is a comprehensive account of the huge contribution made by Chinese guerrillas to Hong Kong's resistance in the Second World War. In rescuing this story from oblivion through 25 years of interviews and documentary research, Chan Sui-jeung has rendered a major service to the history of Hong Kong and Guangdong province."-Philip Snow, author of The Fall of Hong Kong, This is a story waiting to be told. For a long time, the heroism of the East River Guerrillas during the Second World War was legend. But the legend remained murky largely due to political sensitivities on the part of both the Hong Kong colonial administ|9789622091931|, Few analyses have been undertaken on the East River Guerrillas in such detail as this book. The new perspective used by the author shows his immense knowledge of the topic and sheds new light on the study of the resistance in Hong Kong. The book is writt|9789622091931|, Here for the first time in English is a comprehensive account of the huge contribution made by Chinese guerrillas to Hong Kong's resistance in the Second World War. In rescuing this story from oblivion through 25 years of interviews and documentary resea|9789622091931|
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
940.54865125
Synopsis
Hong Kong's story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forces and their defeat on Christmas Day 1941. But there is another story: the Chinese guerrilla forces who harassed the Japanese throughout the occupation played a crucial part in the escapes from Hong Kong's prisoner of war camps and in rescuing Allied airmen. This neglected part of Hong Kong's war is Chan Sui-jeung's topic in this pioneering book informed by his many contacts with participants in the guerrilla warfare., Hong Kong's story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forces and their defeat on Christmas Day 1941. But there is another story the Chinese guerrilla forces who harassed the Japanese throughout the occupation played a crucial part in the escapes from Hong Kong's prisoner-of-war camps and in rescuing Allied airmen. This neglected part of Hong Kong's war is Chan Sui-jeung's topic in this pioneering book informed by his many contacts with participants in the guerrilla warfare. The guerrilla group usually described as the East River Column gathered momentum in 1937 after China and Japan embarked on full-fledged war. Chan reports on its precursors and the formation of more formal structures that provided the basis for the guerrilla activities in Hong Kong between 1941 and 1945. Just as the guerrilla's story starts before the Second World War, so it goes on after 1945 and is entwined with the civil war and the establishment of the People's Republic of China. An important and valuable part of this book recounts how the leaders of the East River Column fared in the period up to and after the Communist victory. The book also sheds new light on the struggle between the Guangdong party members and the cadres from the north and "the problem of Guangdong" as it was characterized by Mao Zedong. This book thus finally gives due prominence to the role of the Chinese guerrillas in Hong Kong during the war, while at the same time setting that struggle into the broader contexts of Guangdong Province, the long war between China and Japan, and the victory of the Communists and the early years of their rule in the South.
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