The Last of the Whampoa Breed: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora

Book Overview

Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the "great divide" of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 the Communists exiled a million soldiers and their families to compounds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231130023
• ISBN13: 9780231130028
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.4"