... between 1911 and 1930, has been undertaken in the hope that a study of one of these warlords will result in a broader understanding of war-lordism as a political phenomenon and in this way illuminate further the whole subject of regional government in China during the early decades of the twentieth...

...Donald G. Gillin Warlord Politics in China 1916–1928 . By Hsi-sheng Ch'i . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1976 . 239 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $11.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 547 background, as it were, upon which...

...James Sheridan Arming the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920–1928 . By Anthony B. Chan . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 1982 . xvi, 180 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $32. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 306...

...Lillian M. Li Famine Relief in Warlord China . By Pierre Fuller . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2019 . 362 pp. ISBN: 9780674241138 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Pierre Fuller's Famine Relief in Warlord China...

...Joseph D. Lawson Abstract This article investigates Chinese warlord authority in the east of the Kham Tibetan region between 1911 and 1949. The colonial government established by the Qing Empire in Kham during the five years before the end of dynastic rule relied on central government funding...

...Edward A. McCord Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers, 1911–1937 . By Diana Lary . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 . 177 pp. Index, Appendixes, Bibliography. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 822 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ticularly...

...Stephen R. MacKinnon Warlord Politics. Conflict and Coalition in the Modernization of Republican China . By Lucian W. Pye . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1971 . ix, 170 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK...

...Lyman P. Van Slyke Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shansi Province, 1911–1949 . By Donald G. Gillin . Princeton, New Jersey ; Princeton University Press , 1967 . xiv , 334 pp. Illustrations, Maps. $9.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 377 ommend...

...Donald G. Gillin Abstract The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that under at least one of the so-called “warlords” or military rulers who governed China during the 1930's, there occurred political, social, and, above all, economic changes of the utmost importance. These changes took place...

... the army a major role in politics during the last decade of the Ch'ing dynasty and the early years of the Republic. VOL. XXXII, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1973 The Peiyang Army, Ytlan Shih-k'ai, and the Origins of Modern Chinese Warlordism STEPHEN R. MACKINNON T HE Peiyang Army was the most...

...Ronald Suleski The Military-Gentry Coalition: China Under the Warlords . By Jerome Ch'en . Toronto : University of Toronto , Joint Centre on Modern East Asia (Publication Series Vol. 1, No. 4), 1979 . iii, 201 pp. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980...

...Martin Collcutt Warlords, Artists, and Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century . Edited by George Elison and Bardwell L. Smith . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1981 . 356 pp. Illustrations, Chronology, Map, Introduction, Notes, Glossary, Index. $20. Copyright ©...

... N. KEIGHTLEY University of California, Berkeley The Power of the Gun: The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism. By E D W A R D A. McCORD. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 436 pp. $45.00. Most textbooks rush through their obligatory discussions of the "warlord era" with anecdotes...

...Allen S. Whiting Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang, 1911–1949 . By Andrew D. W. Forbes . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . xvi, 376 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS...

... Affairs”) ( Hong Kong , 1963 ) 226 pages, and Chin-ling tsʻan-chao chi (“The Sun Sets for Nanking”) ( Hong Kong , 1963 ) 306 pages. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang . By James S. Sheridan . California...

... to offer evocative descriptions of, and various explanations for, the distinctive nature of Philippine democracy, with references to political clans, dynasties, caciques, warlords, and bosses appearing with great frequency in journalistic and scholarly accounts, and terms like cacique democracy, mafia...

...Robert A. Kapp Abstract For many reasons, including the importance of local geographic variation, twentieth century Chinese phenomena such as “warlordism” must be examined in individual sub-national cases. Szechwanese provincial militarists maintained a high degree of independence from outside...

... in the demise of the Ch'ing, the defeat of Yuan Shih-k'ai, and the turmoil of the “warlord” period. After Yuan's death in 1916, the dispute over distribution of power thrust into serious consideration the model of a federation for building a nation out of China's disparate regions and interests. Some felt...

... in this century has been more than the story of Communist Party fortunes. On the national level, it has been the process of casting off politically enervated and/or discredited systems (the imperial, warlord, and Republican) and moving toward the vision of a fundamentally new state and society. The first major...

... on foreign wealth and rural power to maintain law and order needed for trade and to maintain their own urban power base. Armed peasants and the young radicals were suppressed or bought off. Power fell to rural warlords and other political allies in urban enclaves. Only a rejoining of radical intellectuals...