The Nationalist Era in China, 1927-1949 - Paperbackby Lloyd E. Eastman (Author), Jerome Ch'en (Author), Suzanne Pepper (Author) In recent years historians of China have focused increased attention on the critical decades of National rule on the mainland. This recent scholarship has substantially modified our understanding of the political events of this momentous period, shedding light on the character of Nationalist rule and on the sources of the Communist victory in 1949. Yet no existing textbook on