The Last of the Whampoa Breed
Stories of the Chinese Diaspora
Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the Spirit of Whampoa was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the great divide of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 the Communists exiled a million soldiers and their families to compounds in Taiwan and cut off communication with mainland China for forty years. The Last of the Whampoa Breed tells the stories of the exiles written by their descendants, many of whom have become Taiwan's mo…
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Weitere Autoren: Wang, David Der-Wei (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-50905-3
- EAN: 9780231509053
- Produktnummer: 22651027
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'290 KB
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Edited by Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang
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