Xi'an Incident

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The three principals involved in the Xi'an Incident: Chang Hsueh-liang, Yang Hucheng, and Chiang Kai-shek (photo taken 2 months before the incident) Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng and Chiang Kai-shek.jpg
The three principals involved in the Xi'an Incident: Chang Hsüeh-liang, Yang Hucheng, and Chiang Kai-shek (photo taken 2 months before the incident)

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Notes

  1. ↑ Also romanized as the Sian Incident

Citations

  1. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 100.
  2. 1 2 Hammond, Ken (2023). China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future. New York, NY: 1804 Books. ISBN   9781736850084.
  3. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 68.
  4. ↑ Garver 1988, p. 5.
  5. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 125.
  6. ↑ Ch'en 1991, p. 105.
  7. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 116.
  8. ↑ Ch'en 1991, p. 109.
  9. 1 2 Worthing 2017, p. 168.
  10. 1 2 Ch'en 1991, p. 111.
  11. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 119.
  12. 1 2 Taylor 2009, p. 127.
  13. ↑ Ray Huang, China: A Macro History (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), p. 4.
  14. ↑ Bernstein, Richard (2014). China 1945 : Mao's revolution and America's fateful choice (First ed.). New York. p. 29. ISBN   9780307595881.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ↑ Taylor 2009, p. 128.
  16. ↑ Worthing 2017, p. 169.
  17. ↑ Itoh 2016, pp. 176–178.
  18. ↑ Eastman 1991, p. 48.
  19. 1 2 3 Barnouin & Yu 2006, p. 67.
  20. 1 2 Worthing 2016, p. 168.
  21. 1 2 Itoh 2016, pp. 176–180.
  22. ↑ Coble, Parks M. (2023). The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War. Cambridge New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-009-29761-5.
  23. ↑ Itoh 2016, pp. 180–185.
  24. ↑ Itoh 2016, p. 191.
  25. ↑ Wakeman 2003, p. 234.
  26. 1 2 Eastman 1991, p. 48-49.
  27. ↑ Paine 2012, pp. 102–103.
  28. ↑ Garver 1988, p. 78.

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