• KEY DATES
    • 1920 SOVIETS RENOUNCE TSARIST PRIVILEGES
      • SOVIET COOPERATION WITH SUN YAT SEN
      • 1921 CCP FORMED
      • 1923 FIRST UNITED FRONT
    • 1925 MAY 30 MOVEMENT
    • 1926 NORTHERN EXPEDITION
    • 1927 BEGINNING OF NAKING DECADE
      • KOUMINTANG (KMT) GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED
        • CHIANG KAI-SHEK MARRIAGE TO SOONG MEI-LING (WELLESLEY)
          • BROTHER - T.V. SOONG (HARVARD)
          • BROTHER IN LAW - H.H. KUNG (OBERLIN)
          • CHIANG BECOMES A METHODIST
      • ATTACKS ON CCP
      • POLICY CHALLENGES
        • DOMESTIC
        • FOREIGN
    • 1931 MANCHURIAN INCIDENT
    • 1934-5 LONG MARCH
    • 1936 XIAN (SIAN) INCIDENT
    • 1937 SECOND UNITED FRONT
    • 1941 PEARL HARBOR
      • IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA
      • CHINA AS "POWER"
    • 1945 END OF WAR/CIVIL WAR
    • 1949 CCP WINS
  • THEMES
    • CHINESE NATIONALISM
      • VOLATILITY
      • WHO CAPTURES IT?
    • POST WW I EFFORTS AT INTERNATIONAL ORDER
      • IDEALISM
      • REALPOLITIK
      • COMMUNISM FACTOR
    • US AS RELUCTANT HEGEMON?
      • US REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION
        • ANTI-IMPERIALISM
        • ATTITUDES TOWARD CHANGE IN CHINA
        • AMBIVALENCE ABOUT USE OF FORCE
      • APPEASEMENT OF JAPAN
    • DEVELOPMENT OF THE "LOVE-HATE CYCLE"
      • CHINA SIDE
        • RESENTMENT
    • ADMIRATION
    • BETRAYAL
    • US SIDE
      • CONTEMPT
      • "MODERNIZING MISSION"
      • (ANXIETY)