The only comprehensive survey of the aviation aspect of Sino-American relations during the Chinese republican period. Based 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 as well as 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, a story that 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.
The only comprehensive survey of the aviation aspect of Sino-American relations during the Chinese republican period. Based 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 as well as 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, a story that 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.
Preface
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
The only comprehensive survey of the aviation aspect of Sino-American relations during the Chinese republican period.
GUANGQIU XU is Associate Professor of History at Iowa Wesleyan College. He has published numerous articles in journals such as Modern Asian Studies, The Journal of Contemporary History, and The Journal of Asian History. He is currently working on another book on the U.S. Congress and its China policy.
.,."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
?...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
..."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
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