TY - JOUR
AU - Chang, Su-Ya
AB -  Front. Hist. China 2013, 8(2): 294­307 BOOK REVIEWS Chi Hsi-sheng, Jianba nuzhang de mengyou: Taipingyang zhanzheng qijian de Zhong Mei junshi hezuo guanxi, 1941­1945 (Allies at Loggerheads: Sino-U.S. Military Cooperation During the Pacific War, 1941­1945). Taibei: Lianjing chubanshe, 2011. ISBN 978-986-02-7705-0. xxiii, 694pp. NT$780. DOI 10.3868/s020-002-013-0018-1 In the late 1960s, with many American intellectuals frustrated by the Vietnam War, plus the opening of U.S. World War II records, the history of the spoiled relations between China and the U.S. were, again, combed through by historians. The "Stilwell Incident," as known by the Chinese (especially in Taiwan), together with the experience of the "China hands," were often the core of historical inquiry. In 1970, Barbara Tuchman published her renowned work: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911­1945; and soon her interpretation became prevailing. Over the years, the perception of Stilwell and the China hands, as presented by Tuchman, regarding the conflict between "vinegar Joe" Stilwell and the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, as well as the fall of the Generalissimo had been accepted as an accurate representation of China's war time history. According to this line of argument, most Nationalist officials were corrupt and abusive, and Chiang was at 
TI - Chi Hsi-sheng, Jianba nuzhang de mengyou: Taipingyang zhanzheng qijian de Zhong Mei junshi hezuo guanxi, 1941–1945 (Allies at Loggerheads: Sino-U.S. Military Cooperation During the Pacific War, 1941–1945). Taibei: Lianjing chubanshe, 2011. ISBN 978-986-02-7705-0. xxiii, 694pp. NT$780.
JF - Frontiers of History in China
DO - 10.3868/s020-002-013-0018-1
DA - 2013-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/chi-hsi-sheng-jianba-nuzhang-de-mengyou-taipingyang-zhanzheng-qijian-bo7QwQyQAz
SP - 294
EP - 297
VL - 8
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -