China on the eve of Communist takeover

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Part I: Disintegration: Nationalist China's urban base. Riding high for a fall

Uneasy isolation

"War" in the suburbs

Student disaffection

Business depression

Clique politics

Pressures of labor

Minor parties in opposition

Collapse of public morale Part III: Fragmentation: Warlords, Borderlands, and political disunity. Old-style warlordism

Muslim authoritarianism

Chinese in Inner Mongolia

Mongol autonomy

Tibetan border region

The Panchen Lama

Chinese Turkestan

Disunity in the Southwest

End of the line

Island refuge [Taiwan] Part IV: Communist takeover: Siege and turnover

Takeover and consolidation

Fan Shen