Counterrevolution in China : Wang Sheng and the Kuomintang

Spanning 60 years of modern Chinese history from the non-communist perspective, this work concentrates on Wan Sheng's career in relation to Chiang Kai-Shek's son Chiang Ching-Kuo. It shows that the Kuomintang were perfecting the methods that were to make Taiwan an East Asian "tiger economy" at the very point that they "lost" the mainland. It also provides an insight into Taiwan's efforts to aid South Vietnam and Cambodia from 1960 as the Indochina war unfolded.

Dr Thomas A. Marks is currently based at the Academy of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii where he teaches social sciences. A unique combination of soldier, freelance journalist and photographer, academic, and security consultant, he has reported for the past twenty years on conflicts the world over. His scholarly and journalistic works have been published in periodicals that include the Asian Wall Street Journal, Asia Pacific Defence Review, Counterterrorism and Security, Soldier of Fortune (as Chief Foreign Correspondent), and Small Wars and Insurgencies. His books include Making Revolution: The Insurgency of the Communist Party of Thailand in Structural Perspective, and The British Acquisition of Siamese Malaya (1896-1909), both published by White Lotus Press of Bangkok; and Maoist Insurgency Since Vietnam, published by Frank Cass, a Choice magazine selection as an 'Outstanding Academic Book of 1996.' Counterrevolution in China was completed while Dr Marks was on sabbatical as Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Militaries Research Society, Carmel, California.