PART I: DISINTEGRATION: NATIONALIST CHINA'S URBAN BASE. Riding high for a fall -- Uneasy isolation -- "War" in the suburbs -- Student disaffection -- Business depression -- Clique politics -- Pressures of labor -- Minor parties in opposition -- Collapse of public morale
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PART III: FRAGMENTATION: WARLORDS, BORDERLANDS, AND POLITICAL DISUNITY. Old-style warlordism -- Muslim authoritarianism -- Chinese in Inner Mongolia -- Mongol autonomy -- Tibetan border region -- The Panchen Lama -- Chinese Turkestan -- Disunity in the Southwest -- End of the line -- Island refuge [Taiwan]
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PART IV: COMMUNIST TAKEOVER. Siege and turnover -- Takeover and consolidation -- Fan Shen.
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This book attempts to illuminate some of the trends and conditions in China just prior to, and at the time of the Communist takeover. The conditions that existed just prior to 1949 provided the immediate starting point, the base line, from which the Chinese Communists, once in power, embarked upon their tremendous political, economic, and social t