Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Author "Li, Xiaobing, 1954-"
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A reluctant call to arms : the origins and the development of the Truman Doctrine.
LaSala, Samuel C. (2016)For nearly seventy years, historians have scrutinized the origins of the Cold War and debated the Truman Doctrine's significance to this international conflict. These sometimes emotional deliberations produced three distinct ... -
Arthur Gooch : the political, economic, and social influences that led him to the gallows.
Jones, Leslie Tara (2010)Born in 1908, Arthur Gooch came of age in the prosperous 1920s, but something changed for him and for America in 1930. The socioeconomic depravity and increased media coverage of crimes in the Thirties affected those who ... -
Celebrating memory and space: three case studies of centennial projects to commemorate Oklahoma's history
Carey, Jeremy Adam (2013)In 2007, Oklahoma celebrated its centennial with many different events and functions. To commemorate the anniversary, lawmakers established the Oklahoma Centennial Commission. They set out to find and fund projects throughout ... -
Design for common areas of a continuing care retirement community in China : focused on quality of life.
Hu, Guoli (2016)China's senior population is equivalent to over 14% of its total population, so it can be easily concluded that China is an aging society (RenMin RiBao, 2014). In the next 20 years, China's population will begin to increase ... -
From books on the shelves to boots on the ground : Mao Zedong's revolutionary guerrilla strategy in context, development, and application.
Smith, Edward N. (2013)Between 1950 and 1953, the People's Republic of China (PRC) military leaders subscribed to a doctrine that incorporated revolutionary guerrilla warfare as standard operating procedure during the Korean War. Though influenced ... -
Historic preservation of Siheyuan in Beijing China for continued residential use in modern China.
Wang, Guanqun (2012)Siheyuan is a classical architecture style of residential housing of Beijing citizens dating from the Ming Dynasty. The people of China are very familiar with Siheyuan, considering its history of more than 700 years. It ... -
Japanese nationalism : a transnational case study of Pan-Asianism in China and Vietnam, 1931-1945.
Chambers, Travis (2019)After Japan pragmatized bushido and formed a modernized nation-state in the late nineteenth century, it extended that same methodology to its East Asian neighbors, China and Vietnam. Despite state-sponsored bushido's success ... -
Linkage politics in Sino-American relations.
Zhao, Fangfei (2011)A common phenomenon that exists in any complex relationship between two countries is "linkage" across different policy issues. Linkage means to establish a relationship making progress in one area dependent on, or affecting ... -
Oklahoma City's James 'Jimmy' E. Stewart : twentieth century race progress in the Sooner State and beyond.
Reikowsky, Stacy M. (2011)James 'Jimmy' E. Stewart developed his abilities to influence people and applied diplomatic skills to create the social, cultural, and political networks that, over time, improved the lives of black Americans in Oklahoma ... -
Political economic racism : California's policy regarding its Asian immigrants.
Kent, Marcus (2011)From 1848 - 1943, California enacted a policy known as political economic racism: the act of discriminating against a particular ethnic group economically through the political process. The target of their legislation was ... -
The Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1954-1955 : the contemplation of going to war over foreign troop morale.
Burch, Justin E. (2013)This study examines the Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1954-55 and how the Eisenhower administration handled the imbroglio and attempts to explain why the crisis lasted for such a long period of time. Secretary of State John ... -
Through the frozen mountains : the 45th Infantry Division in the Vosges Campaign, 20 September 1944- 23 January 1945.
Bishop, Darrell C. (2015)The purpose of this study is to examine the Vosges Mountain Campaign of World War II to better the fighting in southern France between the Wehrmacht and the Allies in particular the 45th Infantry Division. Keith Bonn, in ... -
Vigorous Cold War handshakes : reviewing Nixon's 1972 China trip.
Mirll, Molly McLeod (2007)The purpose of this study is to reexamine former United States (U.S.) President Richard Milhous Nixon's historic trip to the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.). Although his administration is most often remembered for its ...