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SUMMARY:Chiang Kaishek and the Japanese Ichigo Offensive of 1944 - Chen Yu
 ng-fa (Modern History Institute of the Academia Sinica\, Taipei\, Taiwan) 
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Chen Yung-fa (Modern History Institute of the Academia Sinica\
 , Taipei\, Taiwan) will give a series of three public lectures and a concl
 uding symposium on The Meaning of the Chinese Communist Revolution.\n\nAbs
 tract\n\nWhile the Western powers launched the largest military campaign i
 n European theater in 1944\, the Japanese army surprised the Chinese Natio
 nalist army by the Ichigo offensive\, which was the largest campaign ever 
 undertaken by the Japanese army in their entire history. Military historia
 ns have focused their attention primarily on the American general Joseph S
 tilwell’s campaign in North Burma at this time\, and relatively few stud
 ies exist of the larger and far more important battles in the China Theate
 r.  The resounding defeat that the Nationalist army suffered not only mean
 t the loss of important human and grain resources and intensified the seve
 re struggle of the Nationalist government with the provincial governments 
 in the unoccupied areas of China\, but also alienated a sizable number of 
 the Chinese intellectuals from the Nationalist government in its competiti
 on with the Communist Party.  This essay reconstructs the history of the t
 hree battles\, respectively in the provinces of Henan\, Hunan\, and Guangx
 i\, on the basis of two diaries\, one belonging to Chiang Kaishek and the 
 other to his Military Chief of Staff\, Xu Yongchang.  While showing the co
 mplex nature of the causes of the Nationalist debacle\, this essay emphasi
 zes Chiang Kaishek’s inability to become an effective reformer and his i
 ncreasing tendency to seek comfort and courage from the Christian Bible an
 d traditional moral gestures.\n\nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2239/\
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LOCATION:Faculty of English\, West Road
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