Imagining China’s Madrid in Manchuria
The Communist Military Strategy at the Onset of the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1946
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Shiu Chiang Cheng (0000-0003-1346-2725, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-114 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0097700404270549 |
| OpenAlex | W1996748259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
This article is an interdisciplinary study of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) military decision making at the outset of the civil war. The historical phenomenon of the Communists’ invocation of “Madrid” is studied in the context of the Chinese civil war in Manchuria, particularly the battle of Sipingjie. The strategic culture of the Communist leaders is discussed thematically in terms of their desire for a decisive battle, their expectation of a short war, and their propensity for preemptive strikes. Analyzing newly released primary documents, the author argues that norms, beliefs, and material conditions work in tandem in the making of strategy in a way that the realist premise fails to explain. He concludes that the interaction of normative and material factors, symbolized by the Madrid concept, heightened the CCP policy makers’ acceptance of risk in 1946, which foreshadowed the open general war in China over the following three years
Ancient history · Battle · China · Communism · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Invocation · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Premise · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Strategy
The culture of national security
Strategic Military Deception
Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Social Theory of International Politics
Cultural Realism
Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Making Revolution
Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
The Chinese High Command
Cold War and Revolution
The Cambridge History of China
Imagining War
The Evolution of Modern Land Warfare
Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War
A New Look at American Mediation in the Chinese Civil War
Culture and Military Doctrine
Stalin and the Bomb
Defeat in the East
Defeat in the East
The Third Force in China
Theory of international politics
Prospect Theory and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Manchuria
The Tragedy of Wuhan, 1938
Thunder Out of China
The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |