ABSTRACT
Warfare has shaped the modern history of China more than any other single factor. This book brings together the best recent English language scholarship on warfare in China over the last four centuries and situates warfare within the broader sweep of China's modern historical development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|141 pages
From Ming to Qing, ca. 1600–1800
part II|104 pages
Imperial Decline and Fall, ca. 1800–1911
chapter 7|32 pages
Militia and Local Militarization in Late Qing and Early Republican China
The Case of Hunan
part III|66 pages
The Warlord Era and the Nationalist Decade, 1911-1937
part IV|130 pages
War of Resistance against Japan and Civil War, 1937–1949
chapter 13|39 pages
Community Defense and the Chinese Communist Revolution
Henan's Du Eight-Neighborhood Pact
part V|77 pages
Post-1949 China
