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Article: Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2004
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Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. By Odd Arne Westad. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 413. $65.00.)
In this book, the author has made a breakthrough by bringing a new interpretation as to why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won the Chinese Civil War. Based upon multiarchival sources, including recently declassified Chinese and Russian Communist documents, Odd Arne Westad moves away from a conventional Cold War interpretation that views the struggle between the CCP and the Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang, KMT) as part of a Soviet-United States-centered rivalry in East Asia. By adapting a "China-centered" approach ...