Lost Chance for Peace
The 1945 CCP-Kuomintang Peace Talks Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12747276 |
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| Authors | Sergey Radchenko (0000-0001-8934-1933, East China Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 84-114 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cold War Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1520-3972 • E-ISSN: 1531-3298 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jcws_a_00742 |
| OpenAlex | W2622734855 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
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
China · Communism · Compromise · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Turning point · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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