From: The Historian | Date: January 1, 1993| Author: Zhang, Yongjin | COPYRIGHT 1993 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This is a well-researched book. Based extensively on the British archives in the Public Record Office in London and on a number of private papers, Edmund S. K. Fung has literally reconstructed the making of the British policy toward the Nationalist Revolution in China in a period of "momentous political changes." The years between 1924 and 1931 were marked not only by domestic turbulence but also by rising Chinese nationalism. The book has given detailed descriptions of the challen...