General He Yingqin by Peter Worthing - 9781316507810

General He YingqinThe Rise and Fall of Nationalist China\nAuthor(s): Peter Worthing\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316507810, 978-1316507810\nSynopsis\nA revisionist study of the career of General He Yingqin, one of the most prominent military officers in China's Nationalist period [tel] and one of the most misunderstood figures in twentieth-century China. Western scholars have dismissed He Yingqin as corrupt and incompetent, yet the Chinese archives reveal that he demonstrated considerable success as a combat commander and military administrator during civil conflicts and the Sino-Japanese War. His work in the Chinese Nationalist military served as the foundation of a close personal and professional relationship with Chiang Kai-shek, with whom he worked closely for more than two decades. Against the backdrop of the Nationalist revolution of the 1920s through the 1940s, Peter Worthing analyz.