Taiwan Question: History of an Unfinished Civil War

The Taiwan question is often reduced to a contemporary security dilemma, yet its roots lie in the unfinished Chinese civil war of the 1940s and the frozen confrontation that followed across the Taiwan Strait. This book traces the conflict from the 1920s struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communists, through Japan's wartime occupation, the 1949 retreat of the Republic of China to Taiwan, and t...