UNIT / CHINESE REVOLUTION 1911-1937

Drill.

Rapid-fire recall for the Chinese Revolution SAC. No mercy, no hints - read the prompt, recall the answer, then grade yourself straight.

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Historiography cheat-sheet

The three lenses the SAC expects you to weigh against each other.

John King Fairbank

"A 'surface modernization' that never reached the rural masses."

The dominant Western sinologist - structural reading of GMD failure.

Jonathan Fenby

"A regime crippled by corruption, factions and warlord deals."

Biographer of Chiang - power-political reading of the Nationalist state.

Edgar Snow

"Disciplined, popular Communists against a corrupt, urban GMD."

'Red Star Over China' (1937) - first sympathetic Western account of Mao.