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SUMMARY:Chiang Kaishek's Experience with Britain and his Private Thoughts\
 , 1917-1949  - Chen Yung-fa (Modern History Institute of the Academia Sini
 ca\, Taipei\, Taiwan) 
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Chen Yung-fa (Modern History Institute of the Academia Sinica\
 , Taipei\, Taiwan) will give a series of three public lectures and a concl
 uding symposium on The Meaning of the Chinese Communist Revolution.\n\nAbs
 tract\n\nDespite the efforts to woo the Chinese Communist Party\, Britain 
 was unable to protect and to preserve its economic interests in Communist-
 occupied China.  Using all the means available to it\, the Communist regi
 me squeezed and confiscated British properties and cleaned out the last ve
 stiges of British imperialism in China.  Only after China reopened its do
 or to the capitalist world\, while insisting on the restoration of control
  over the Kowloon area that consisted of more than 90% of the British colo
 ny of Hong Kong\, did the British government agree to return Hong Kong isl
 and\, thus fulfilling the dream of a generation of Chinese intellectuals w
 ho hoped to wipe clean the remains of British imperialism.  As the foreig
 n policy of Chiang Kaishek’s government is well known to historians\, th
 is essay only seeks to examine his experiences with the British during his
  mainland China years.  Chiang’s diaries\, which are now available\, sh
 ow how he reacted to the Shameen tragedy in which many of his cadets were 
 killed by British machineguns\, how he reacted to the British defense of B
 urma and India\, and how he reacted to Churchill’s determination to hold
  the Empire intact and to perpetuate British privileges in Hong Kong and T
 ibet. \n\nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2238/\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
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