Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution (1937-1949)

Why did the Kuomintang fail? This is an issue that has been debated for a long time in the international historians after the collapse of the Kuomintang regime in 1949. It is also an issue worthy of reflection in the development of modern China. Professor Yi Laoyi used various materials from the Kuomintang itself and used the methods of geologists to study the formation of the earth. He extracted some typical cases and analyzed the reasons incisively. The author believes that the failure of the Kuomintang was not due to the lack of US aid, but due to its own shortcomings and divisions, such as corruption and incompetence, lax discipline, etc. The value of "Overseas China Studies Series: Seeds of Destruction: Kuomintang China in War and Revolution (1937-1949)" can be summed up in a sentence by Reilly Sunderland: "Recent research on the issue of the Kuomintang's failure will be opened up by "Overseas China Studies Series: Seeds of Destruction: Kuomintang China in War and Revolution (1937-1949)".