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

ISBN: 0231130023

ISBN13: 9780231130028

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

(Part of the Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan Series)

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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...

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