The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946

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261 I N D E X Acheson, Dean, 82 American arms and equipment: Communist use of, 229n33; limited value of, 63, 134, 168, 216–17, 220; Nationalist use of, 134, 135, 220 An-Hai Campaign, 185, 188 Anshan, battle of, 182, 183, 185 Autumn Offensive, 201, 204 Bai Chongxi, 61, 86, 166 Bandits: CCP recruitment of, 128; CCP regarded as by KMT, 2, 60, 112, 148, 169, 171; CCP suppression of, 89, 142, 198; KMT labeled as by CCP, 130 Beal, John, 179 Bei-Ning railway line, 98, 166, 191, 198, 205, 206 Belorussov, Dmitri, 44, 45, 53 Benxi: battle of, 136–38, 146, 243n50; Mao’s determination to defend, 136, 144, 151; Nationalist decision to attack, 112, 131, 135 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 10, 180 Borodino, Battle of, 180, 181 Byrnes, James F., 79 Catholic missionaries, 110, 124, 126, 129, 163, 203, 204 Ceasefire (January 1946), 93, 94, 96, 234n59 Ceasefire (June 1946), 3, 6, 165, 189, 191; criticism of, 6, 7, 214 Chahar, 44, 46, 58, 88, 90, 91, 93, 109, 110, 123, 198, 218 Chamberlain, Neville, 13 Chang, Jung, 7, 12, 214; and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story, 7 Changchun: Chiang Kai-shek’s visit to, 188; Communist capture of, 123, 154; Communist decision to capture, 122–23; Du Yuming’s determination to capture, 166–67, 170, 171; Lin Biao’s decision not to defend, 176, 177; Marshall ’s plans for, 155, 169; Nationalist occupation of, 103; role in Communist strategy, 111, 124, 136, 147, 155, 157, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 176, 177, 179, 188, 191, 205; siege of, 206 Chen Lifu, 84, 170, 171, 174, 188, 189 Chen Mingren, 202, 204 Chen Yun, 52, 116, 195, 196, 197 Cheng, Victor, 143, 217, 244n56 Chengde, 18, 91, 146, 198 Chiang, Madame. See Soong Meiling Chiang Kai-shek: agreement to June ceasefire, 188, 189, 243n38; conversation with Richard Lauterbach, 170; decision to send troops to the Northeast, 64, 74, 112; friction with Joseph Stilwell, 78; frustration with George Marshall, 262 Index 85, 86, 97, 153, 154, 169, 171; negotiations with Mao Zedong, 48–49, 50; retreat to Taiwan, 3; during the Second Battle of Siping, 114, 131, 132, 136, 166, 172, 173, 174, 175, 216; Soviet Russia in China, 4, 5, 7; strategic thinking for the Northeast, 12, 64, 74, 104, 106–107, 112, 113–14, 136, 172, 174, 175, 191, 198, 218; view of the Soviet Union, 4–5, 172, 175; views on the Second Battle of Siping, 5–6, 172, 216, 243n38 China-Changchun railway, 44, 109, 191 Chinese Communist Party (CCP): Soviet support of, 42, 44–45, 55–57, 62, 101; strategy of for the Northeast, 36, 44, 45, 60, 73, 91, 106, 110 Chinese Eastern Railway, 23, 25, 50, 175 Chongqing peace talks, 48–51, 78; relation to Communist “March on the north, defend in the south” strategy, 40, 46 Civilians: in the Second Battle of Siping, 129, 140; in the siege of Changchun, 206; under Soviet occupation, 32; in the Third Battle of Siping, 203 Conventional warfare, transition to from guerrilla warfare, 2, 36, 39, 46, 57, 59, 72–73, 139, 140, 185, 231 Dalian, 45, 183. See also Lüshun and Dalian Decisive battle, concept of, 6, 8–12, 67, 132, 136, 178 Deng Xiaoping, 120 Du Yuming: determination to advance into North Manchuria, 166, 167, 174, 186, 191; failure to annihilate Communist forces, 66, 71, 216, 217, 219; illness of, 112, 130; and Liaoxi Corridor campaign, 64–69, 74; and 1946 operations in South Manchuria, 3, 198, 199, 200; and Rehe-Liaoning border campaign, 90–91; rivalry with Shi Jue, 64, 231n71; in the Second Battle of Siping, 2, 130, 131, 135, 138, 139, 156, 157, 160 Eighth Route Army, 35, 43, 45, 46, 55, 72, 87, 101, 126 Eighty-seventh Division, 113, 121 Eighty-eighth Division, 120 89th Division, 97 Extermination Campaigns, 218 Fan Hanjie, 113 Fifty-second Army, 64, 65, 66, 71, 90, 95 Fifty-fourth Division, 66 First Column, 202 First Division, 190 “First south, then north” strategy, 199, 200 552nd Regiment, 183 Forty-third Army, 210 Fourteenth Division, 137 Fourth Column, 99, 183, 184, 185, 186 Fu Zuoyi, 206–207 Gao Gang, 116, 195, 207, 211, 212 Gillem, Alvan, 149 Gillin, Donald, 7, 179 Glantz, David, 30 Great Wall, 4, 16, 19, 29, 62, 66, 224n5 Guerrilla warfare: Communist criticism of, 6, 7; Communist use of in the Northeast, 52, 118, 119, 180, 199, 200, 213; against Japanese forces, 29; limitations of, 54, 59, 72, 214. See...