Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin 1945-49

The end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 brought not peace but renewed confrontation between Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang. The ensuing Civil War, at the threshold of the Cold War, held enormous significance for international strategic alliances, and in particular the interests of the United States in East Asia, and has been the subject of intense research and debate ever since. Joseph Yick's Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-1949, based partly on the rich new sources available in the PRC since 1978, rethinks the traditional interpretations of the Chinese Communist Party's victory in 1949 and makes a major contribution to the historiography of this period. Chapter 1 Beijing-Tianjin: Communist Organizations, 1921–1945; Chapter 2 National and International Levels of the Civil War; Chapter 3 GMD-CCP Organizations and Strategies in North China; Chapter 4 Beiping-Tianjin: Urban Environments for Political Struggle; Chapter 5 The Communist Student Movement, 1945–1948; Chapter 6 Communist Labor and Other Activities, 1945–1948; Chapter 7 Final Struggle: August 1948 to January 1949; concl Conclusion;