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  • THE US NAVY AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
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    THE US NAVY AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
    BRUCE A ELLEMAN
    This book explores the question “Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea at all?” It traces the history of diplomatic, economic, and military tensions among the People’s Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, outlining the origins of the United States-Vietnam relationship during the immediate post-World War II period, th...

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  • THE UNITED STATES NAVY’S PIVOT TO ASIA
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    THE UNITED STATES NAVY’S PIVOT TO ASIA
    BRUCE A. ELLEMAN
    This book examines the origins of the US Navy’s 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the US government’s “Pivot to Asia” strategy, and the most recent revisions to this strategy that focus more specifically on China. Besides examining the details of this strategy formulation, the book explores the internal and external repercussions on the US Navy of the Pivot to Asia. It d...

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  • A HISTORY OF THE MODERN CHINESE NAVY, 1840–2020
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    A HISTORY OF THE MODERN CHINESE NAVY, 1840–2020
    BRUCE A. ELLEMAN
    This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present. Beginning with a survey of naval developments in earlier imperial times, the book goes on to show how China has since the mid-19th century four times built or rebuilt its navy: after the Opium Wars, a navy which was sunk or captured by the Japanese in the war of 1894–1895; during the...

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  • INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY AND SECRET DIPLOMACY IN EAST ASIA, 1896-1950
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    INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY AND SECRET DIPLOMACY IN EAST ASIA, 1896-1950
    BRUCE ELLEMAN
    East Asia was a major focus of struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War of 1945 to 1991, with multiple "hot" and "cold" conflicts in China, Korea, and Vietnam. The struggle for predominance in East Asia, however, largely predated the Cold War, as this book shows, with many examples of the United States and Russia/the Soviet Union working to ex...

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  • DIPLOMACY AND DECEPTION
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    DIPLOMACY AND DECEPTION
    BRUCE ELLEMAN
    During the Soviet period the USSR conducted diplomatic relations with incumbent regimes while simultaneously cultivating and manipulating communist movements in those same countries. The Chinese case offers a particularly interesting example of this dual policy, for when the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, their discovery of the nature of Moscow's imperial designs on ...

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  • WILSON AND CHINA: A REVISED HISTORY OF THE SHANDONG QUESTION
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    WILSON AND CHINA: A REVISED HISTORY OF THE SHANDONG QUESTION
    BRUCE ELLEMAN
    Drawing on sources in Japanese, Chinese, and American archives and libraries, this book reassesses another facet of Woodrow Wilson's agenda at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. Breaking with accepted scholarly opinions, the author argues that Wilson did not "betray" China, as many Chinese and Western scholars have charged; rather, Wilson successfully ne...

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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IN CHINA, 1899-1991
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    INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IN CHINA, 1899-1991
    BRUCE A. ELLEMAN
    China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive 'spheres of influence' in China. This book, based on extensive original archival research, examines and re-evaluates China's Open Door Policy. It considers th...

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  • MONGOLIA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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    MONGOLIA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    STEPHEN KOTKIN / BRUCE ALLEN ELLEMAN
    The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern times Mongolia itself has been the object of imperial rivalry. For most of the 20th century it was under Soviet domination. Mikhail Gorbachev began the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Mongolia in 198...

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  • MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS AND THE OPENING OF CHINA: AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY
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    MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS AND THE OPENING OF CHINA: AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY
    BRUCE ELLEMAN / STEPHEN KOTKIN
    The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria. A spur line from the Manchurian city of Harbin led south to ice-free Port Arthur. C...

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  • BEIJING'S POWER AND CHINA'S BORDERS
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    BEIJING'S POWER AND CHINA'S BORDERS
    BRUCE ELLEMAN
    China shares borders with 20 other countries. Each of these neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, these include territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims. Most of these 20 countries have had a history of border conflicts with China; some of them never amicably settled. This book brings together some of the foremost hi...

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  • NAVAL POWER AND EXPEDITIONARY WARS
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    NAVAL POWER AND EXPEDITIONARY WARS
    ELLEMAN, BRUCE A. / PAINE, S.C.M.
    This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and difficult for their enemies to reach by...

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  • MOSCOW AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNIST POWER IN CHINA, 1925-30
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    MOSCOW AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNIST POWER IN CHINA, 1925-30
    BRUCE ELLEMAN
    This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period, focusing especially on the role of the Soviet Union and the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It describes the history behind the alliance between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists, the impact of the USSR's military and political advisers, and the success of the Northern Expedition that resulte...

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  • NAVAL COALITION WARFARE
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    NAVAL COALITION WARFARE
    BRUCE A. ELLEMAN
    This is the first scholarly book examining naval coalition warfare over the past two centuries from a multi-national perspective. Containing case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the US, Great Britain, and Australia, it also examines the impact of international law on coalitions. Together these collected essays comprise a compr ...

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  • NAVAL BLOCKADES AND SEAPOWER
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    NAVAL BLOCKADES AND SEAPOWER
    ELLEMAN, BRUCE A. / PAINE, S.C.M.
    This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here the reader can find Napoleon’s Continental Blockade of England, the Anglo-American War of 1812, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the first Sino-Japanese War 1894-95, the Spanish-American War, the First World War, t...

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  • JAPANESE-AMERICAN CIVILIAN PRISONER EXCHANGES AND DETENTION CAMPS, 1941-45
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    JAPANESE-AMERICAN CIVILIAN PRISONER EXCHANGES AND DETENTION CAMPS, 1941-45
    BRUCE ELLEMAN
    The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to 1943, is examined here by Bruce Elleman. Approximately 7000 American citizens had been arrested by the Japanese authorities while visiting Japan as tourists, conducting business, teaching English or ca...

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  • MODERN CHINESE WARFARE, 1795-1989
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    MODERN CHINESE WARFARE, 1795-1989
    BRUCE A. ELLEMAN
    Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite China? Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 seeks to answer these questions by exploring the most important domestic and international conflicts over the past two hundred years, from the last half of the Qing empire through to modern day China. It reveals how most of China's wars during...

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  • NAVAL MUTINIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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    NAVAL MUTINIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    BELL, CHRISTOPHER / ELLEMAN, BRUCE
    This volume brings together a set of scholarly, readable and up-to-date essays covering the most significant naval mutinies of the 20th century, including Russia (1905), Brazil (1910), Austria (1918), Germany (1918), France (1918-19), Great Britain (1931), Chile (1931), the United States (1944), India (1946), China (1949), Australia, and Canada (1949) ...

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  • CHINA’S NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
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    CHINA’S NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
    BRUCE ELLEMAN
    This book provides a history of the South China Sea conflict and lays out the stakes for each of the bordering states and China’s interaction with them – namely, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia; it also examines the U.S. government’s role in the region. China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea is highly topical; it examines the evolving ...

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  • US-CHINA NAVAL CO-OPERATION AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION
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    US-CHINA NAVAL CO-OPERATION AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION
    BRUCE A. ELLEMAN
    This book discusses the key role of the transfer of naval technology from the U.S. to China in building up the Chinese Navy during the Cold War. Revealing how this process began in the late 1970s under the Carter Administration when Deng Xiaoping was newly in power, and how it accelerated under both the Reagan and Bush administrations, moving from the transfer of simple technol...

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