Bruce Elleman: 13 books
by Bruce Elleman
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to 1943, is examined here by Bruce Elleman.
Approximately 7000 American citizens had been arrested by the Japanese...
Diplomacy and Deception: Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-27
Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-27
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
During the Soviet period the USSR conducted diplomatic relations with incumbent regimes while simultaneously cultivating and manipulating communist movements in those same countries. The Chinese case offers a particularly interesting example of this dual policy, for when the Chinese Communists came...
Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925-30
The Nanchang Uprising and the Birth of the Red Army
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period, focusing especially on the role of the Soviet Union and the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It describes the history behind the alliance between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists, the impact of the USSR's military...
Beijing's Power and China's Borders
Twenty Neighbors in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
China shares borders with 20 other countries. Each of these neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, these include territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims. Most of these 20 countries have had a history of border conflicts with China; some...
Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question
A Revised History of the Shandong Question
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Drawing on sources in Japanese, Chinese, and American archives and libraries, this book reassesses another facet of Woodrow Wilson's agenda at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. Breaking with accepted scholarly opinions, the author argues that Wilson did not "betray"...
Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria. A...
by Bruce A. Elleman
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite China? Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 seeks to answer these questions by exploring the most important domestic and international conflicts over the past two hundred years, from the last half of the Qing...
Taiwan Straits
Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
In Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy, historian Bruce Elleman surveys the situation that has led to the current tensions between China and Taiwan. Starting in 1949, the final phase of the civil war in China, which ended with Communist rule of the mainland and nationalist...
People's Liberation Army Navy
Combat System Technology, 1949-2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Rare among books on weapon systems technologies, this work traces China s development from a coastal defense force of obsolete ships with crude weapons to its current complex missile catamarans and Aegis-like destroyers with vertical launch weapons and long-range cruise missiles. As the only book devoted...
Modern China
Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. Through years of living and research in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, the authors are deeply qualified to understand China’s internal dynamics as well as its foreign relations...
International Competition in China, 1899-1991
The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Open Door Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive 'spheres of influence' in China. This book, based on extensive original archival...
Seaborne Perils
Piracy, Maritime Crime, and Naval Terrorism in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary issues related to maritime crime and piracy, with a special focus on Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, explains why piracy is a growing problem and how it affects security policy making in the United States.
Here, piracy is defined as...
by Stephen Kotkin, Bruce Allen Elleman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern times Mongolia itself has been the object of imperial rivalry. For most of the 20th century it was under Soviet domination....