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The Peiyang Army, Yüan Shih-k'ai and the Origins of Modern Chinese Warlordism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Stephen R. MacKinnon
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The Peiyang Army was the most significant military development in China between the Hsiang and Huai Armies which suppressed the Taiping and Nien rebellions in the 1860's and the army that Chiang Kai-shek raised and employed in the northern expedition of 1926–27. The Peiyang was the first Chinese army to be comparatively modern in training and discipline as well as in weaponry. Formed for the most part by Yuan Shih-k'ai while he was governor-general of Chihli province from 1901 to 1907, the Peiyang Army grew to six divisions of about 10,000 men each. Size alone gave the army a major role in politics during the last decade of the Ch'ing dynasty and the early years of the Republic.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , May 1973 , pp. 405 - 423
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973

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The author wishes to thank Arizona University's Grants Committee for financial ante.

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63Yoshihiro, Hatano in “The New Armies,” Wright, Mary C., ed., China in Revolution: The First Phase, 1900–1913 (New Haven, 1968), pp. 365–82, has argued that the development of new armies during the last decade of the Ch'ing dynasty siphoned off potentially explosive peasant discontent and channeled it into the revolutionary nationalist movements of the upper classes. For the Peiyang Army there is little evidence that ordinary soldiers became politically conscious or identified themselves with the causes of their officers. They seemed more conscious of their bondage to an oppressive system which included their officers. When they could or dared, they deserted.Google Scholar

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68 After Yüan was forced to retire from public office in January, 1909, the loyalties of a number of senior Peiyang commanders to Yuan evidently wavered. Upon returning to power as premier in November, 1911, one of Yüan's first moves was the removal of Wang Ying-k'ai, Chao Kuo-hsien, Wu Feng-ling, and Ma Lung-piao—former associates whom Yuan no longer could trust with command of Peiyang units. Jerome Ch'en, Yüan Shih-k'ai, pp. 60–61.

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72 Between 1903 and 1907 there were about 3,000 Chinese receiving some kind of military education in Japan—Sanetō Keish'ŭ, Chŭgokttpn Nippon ryŭgaku shi [A History of Chinese Students in Japan] (Tokyo, 1960), pp. 138, 528–32 and graph on p. 544. British military attachés who visited Peiyang divisions between 1904 and 1907 noticed varying but significant numbers of Japan-trained junior officers in each division—Intelligence Diary for the period ending 27 September, 1904, FO 17/1657 2356*.; Intelligence Diary for the period ending 22 November, 1904, FO 17/1686, 235ff.; The Lu-chiin, report by G. Pereira dated 14 January, 1906, FO 371/31, 388ff.; The 6th Division of the Lu-chiin, report by G. Pereira, enclosure, in Carnegie's no. 332 of 6th August, 1906, FO 371/39, 468ff.; The 5th Division of the Lu-chün, report by G. Pereira, enclosure to Jordan's no. 407 of 12th September, 1908, FO 371/434, 209ff.; The 2nd Division of Lu-chün, report no. 88 by G. Pereira, dated 2nd November, 1908, FO 371/435, 496ff. On Yuan's recruitment of graduates from southern military academics, sec Ralph Powell, p. 202.

73 See Tientsin Consul-General Hopkins' interview with Tientsin Customs Taotai Liang Tun-yen on December i8, 1905, in Hopkins to Satow, no. 62, 19 December, 1905, FO 228/1594; also T'ao Chü-yin, I, 13–14, 24.

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