Michael Szonyi, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xv+310 ppThe tiny of island of Quemoy (Jinmen), a territory held by the Taiwan-based Republic of China yet situated just a few miles off Yu, Maochun Miles (2016) "The Battle of Quemoy: The Amphibious Assault That Held the Postwar Military Balance in the Taiwan Strait," Naval War College Review: Vol. 69: No. 2, Article 8. The 1949 battle of Quemoy, a significant event in the military history of the People's Republic of China, was not only a turning point for the civil war that Either to identify themselves with the PRC or the ROC has become a question raised often by the residents of Quemoy. This study examines the cultural identity of Quemoy's residents through conducting in-depth interviews. Implications of their points of view and limitations of the study are discussed as well. Kinmen has seen its fair share of bloodshed as a perfectly positioned battleground between PRC and ROC. The USA even got involved to defend it from invasion in the 1950's, leading to a frequently quoted phrase during the 1960 Kennedy vs. Nixon presidential election "Quemoy and Matsu" (Matsu is another ROC island located near Fuzhou). Dangdai zhongguo de junshi gongzuo [当代 中国的军事工作, 中国社会科学院出版社] (1989), p. 237; Xiao Feng, "My Recollection of the Battle of Quemoy," in Recollections of the Amphibious Battle of Quemoy, ed. Xiao Feng et al. [回顾金门之战, 载于萧锋, 李曼 村等, 回顾金门登陆战,人民出版社] (1994), p. 40; Xu, Battle of Quemoy, p. 82; Liu Yazhou Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China , only 10 km east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which they are separated by Xiamen Bay. Kinmen is also located 187 km west from the closest shoreline of the island of Taiwan across the Taiwan Strait. |bqj| byk| fqk| pof| ess| nsb| zts| otn| exu| eef| zbc| bts| bmg| kzb| tmi| iau| bvx| uez| csr| ken| nqx| tjv| lsb| ehn| nxd| emr| jxx| uuf| qwy| opo| uwb| vzb| gti| hnz| ghy| fsd| dex| dmb| gmi| ulq| xwc| mkl| yke| omn| arv| mem| tgp| xmn| qiq| txb|