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Notes

  1. ↑ Also romanized as the Sian Incident
  2. ↑ Chinese :先安內，後讓外。; pinyin :Xiān ānnèi, hòu ràngwài.

Citations

  1. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 68.
  2. ↑ Taylor 2009 , p. 100: "When the Japanese overran Jehol, Zhang Xueliang resigned all his posts and entered a missionary hospital in Shanghai where a 'cold turkey' treatment cured him of his opium addiction ... In April, the Young Marshal and a large entourage ... sailed for Europe."
  3. ↑ Coble 1991, p. 76.
  4. ↑ Ch'en 1991, p. 105.
  5. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 116.
  6. ↑ Coble 1991, pp. 76–77.
  7. ↑ Garver 1988, p. 5.
  8. ↑ Coble 1991, p. 78.
  9. ↑ Hammond 2023, p. 32.
  10. 1 2 Coble 1991, pp. 224–225.
  11. ↑ Coble 1991, pp. 150–151.
  12. ↑ Ch'en 1991, p. 109.
  13. 1 2 Worthing 2017, p. 168.
  14. 1 2 Ch'en 1991, p. 111.
  15. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 119.
  16. 1 2 Taylor 2009, p. 127.
  17. ↑ Huang 1997, p. 4.
  18. ↑ Bernstein 2014, p. 29.
  19. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 128.
  20. ↑ Worthing 2017, p. 169.
  21. ↑ Itoh 2016, pp. 176–178.
  22. ↑ Eastman 1991, p. 48.
  23. 1 2 3 Barnouin & Yu 2006, p. 67.
  24. 1 2 Worthing 2016, p. 168.
  25. 1 2 Itoh 2016, pp. 176–180.
  26. ↑ Coble 2023, p. 53.
  27. ↑ Itoh 2016, pp. 180–185.
  28. ↑ Itoh 2016, p. 191.
  29. ↑ Wakeman 2003, p. 234.
  30. 1 2 Eastman 1991, p. 48-49.
  31. ↑ Paine 2012, pp. 102–103.
  32. ↑ Garver 1988, p. 78.

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Xi'an Incident
Traditional Chinese 西安事變
Simplified Chinese 西安事变
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