《A Military History of China》是2012年University Press of Kentucky出版的圖書，作者是David A. Graff, Robin Higham。
基本介紹
- 中文名：A Military History of China
- 作者：David A. Graff、Robin Higham
- 出版社：University Press of Kentucky
- 出版時間：2012年3月9日
- 頁數：344 頁
- 定價：25 美元
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780813135847
內容簡介,圖書目錄,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Gaining an understanding of China’s long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China’s ascent to global power. Many of China’s imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes of the twentieth century. China’s ability to sustain complex warfare on a very large scale was not emulated in other parts of the world until the Industrial Age, despite the fact that the country is only now rising to economic dominance.
In A Military History of China, Updated Edition, David A. Graff and Robin Higham bring together leading scholars to offer a basic introduction to the military history of China from the first millennium B.C.E. to the present. Focusing on recurring patterns of conflict rather than traditional campaign narratives, this volume reaches farther back into China’s military history than similar studies. It also offers insightful comparisons between Chinese and Western approaches to war. This edition brings the volume up to date, including discussions of the Chinese military’s latest developments and the country’s most recent foreign conflicts.
圖書目錄
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Preface to the Updated Edition
Chronology
Editors' Note
1. Introduction, Robin Higham and David A. Graff
2. Continuity and Change, Edward L. Dreyer
3. State Making and State Breaking, David A. Graff
4. The Northern Frontier, David C. Wright
5. Water Forces and Naval Operations, Peter Lorge
6. Military Writings, Ralph D. Sawyer
7. The Qing Empire, Paul Lococo Jr.
8. The Taiping Rebellion: A Military Assessment of Revolution and Counterrevolution, Maochun Yu
9. Beyond the Marble Boat: The Transformation of the Chinese Military, 1850–1911, Richard S. Horowitz
10. Warlordism in Early Republican China, Edward A. McCord
11. The National Army from Whampoa to 1949, Chang Jui-te
12. The Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1931–1945, Stephen R. MacKinnon
13. “Political Power Grows out of the Barrel of a Gun”: Mao and the Red Army, William Wei
14. Always Faithful: The PLA from 1949 to 1989, Dennis J. Blasko
15. China's Foreign Conflicts since 1949, Larry M. Wortzel
16. Recent Developments in the Chinese Military, June Teufel Dreyer
Chinese Place Names
About the Contributors
Index
作者簡介
David A. Graff, associate professor of history and director of the East Asian Studies program at Kansas State University, is the author of Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300–900.
Robin Higham, professor of history emeritus at Kansas State University, is the author and editor of many books, including Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat.
