Warlordism in China

Review of African Political Economy

Volumn 16, Issue 45-46, 1989, Pages 26-33

  Roberts, J A G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILITARISM; POLITICS; REGIONALISM; VIOLENCE; WARLORDISM;

AFRICA; CHINA;

EID: 0024928699     PISSN: 03056244     EISSN: 17401720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03056248908703823     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. The best introductions to the subject of warlordism in Republican China are to be found in James E. Sheridan, China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History, The Free Press, 1975, and the same author ‘The warlord era; politics and militarism under the Peking government, 1916–28’ in J.K.Fairbank ed., The Cambridge History of China, Vol.12, Republican China 1912–1949, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
2. General issues relating to warlords and warlordism are discussed in Jerome Ch’en, ‘Defining Chinese warlords and their factions’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 31.3.1968;.
3. Jerome Ch’en, The Military-Gentry Coalition: China under the Warlords, University of Toronto - York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, 1979; Hsi-sheng Ch’i, Warlord Politics in China 1916–1928, Stanford University Press, 1976;.
4. Donald G.Gillin, ‘Review Article: Warlordism in modern China’, Journal of Asian Studies, 26.3.1967;.
5. Winston W. Hsieh, ‘The economics of warlordism’, Chinese Republican Studies Newsletter, 1.1.1975;.
6. Diana Lary, Warlord Soldiers 1911–1937, Cambridge University Press, 1985;.
7. Lucien Pye, Warlord Politics, Praeger 1971;.
8. H.Z.Schiffrin, ‘Militarism and politics in China. Is the warlord model pertinent?’, Asia Quarterly 3. 1973;.
9. C. Martin Wilbur ‘Military separatism and the process of reunification under the Nationalist regime’ and Gung-wu Wang, ‘Comments’ in P.T.Ho and Tang Tsou eds., China in Crisis Vol. I Book 1, University of Chicago Press, 1968;.
10. On the origins of warlordism also see Stephen R. MacKinnon, ‘The Peiyang Army, Yuan Shih-k’ai, and the origins of modern Chinese warlordism’, Journal of Asian Studies, 32.3. 1973;.
11. Franz Michael, ‘Introduction’ in Stanley Spector, Li Hung-Chang and the Huai Army, University of Washington Press, 1964.
12. On warlordism at the time of the Cultural Revolution see William W. Whitson, ‘The field army in Chinese communist military politics’, The China Quarterly, 37.1969.
13. On the economic background of the warlord period see J.K.Chang, Industrial Development in Pre-communist China: A Quantitative Analysis, Aldine Press, 1969.
14. For biographies of individual warlords see Jerome Ch’en, Yuan Shih-k’ai, Stanford University Press, 2nd. edition 1972; Donald G.Gillin, Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shasi Province 1911–1949, Princeton University Press, 1967;.
15. Winston Hsieh, The ideas and ideals of a warlord: Ch’en Chiung-ming (1878–1933), Harvard Papers on China, 16; 1962;.
16. Gavan McCormack, Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China 1911–1928, Stanford University Press, 1977;.
17. James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-hsiang, Stanford University Press, 1966;.
18. Odoric Y.K.Wou, Militarism in Modern China: The Career of Wu P’ei-fu, 1916–39, Australian National University Press, 1978.
19. For a discussion of warlordism in particular provinces or regions of China see also Andrew D.W.Forbes, Warlords and Muslims in Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949, Cambridge University Press, 1986;.
20. Robert A. Kapp, Szechwan and the Chinese Republic: Provincial Militarism and Central Power 1911–1938, Yale University Press, 1973;.
21. Diana Lary, Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics 1925–1937, Cambridge University Press, 1974;.
22. Donald Sutton, Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army 1905–25, University of Michigan Press, 1980.
23. For a recent bibligraphical study, see Diana Lary, ‘Warlord studies’, Modern China, 6.4. 1980.