Radchenko, Sergey  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5100-1447
2017.
Lost chance for peace: The 1945 CCP-Kuomintang peace talks revisited.
Journal of Cold War Studies
19
(2)
, pp. 84-114.
10.1162/JCWS_a_00742
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Abstract
This article reconsiders the 1945 Chongqing peace talks between the Kuo-mintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a key turning point on the road to the Chinese civil war. The article shows that the talks represented a lost opportunity to avert the slide into fratricidal warfare. The CCP leader, Mao Zedong, under pressure from Iosif Stalin, was prepared to compromise with his rival Chiang Kai-shek on the basis of dividing China into two separately administered territories (roughly, north and south). Chiang was unwilling to consider such a step, which from his perspective was unpatriotic. His resistance to the division of China doomed the talks and precipitated the outbreak of war.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR) Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics |
| Publisher: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press) |
| ISSN: | 1520-3972 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 7 November 2017 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 17 February 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 03 May 2023 15:56 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/105836 |
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