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Warlords against Warlordism: The Politics of Anti-Militarism in Early Twentieth-Century China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Edward A. McCord
Edward A. McCord
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The George Washington University
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In a recent article published in the Journal of Military History, Arthur Waldron noted that war in Chinese history has been ‘treated at best as a largely unexamined context’. One has only to look at the cursory treatment given by most textbooks to the incessant civil wars of China's ‘warlord’ period (usually dated from 1916 to 1926) to see the truth of this statement. In the above article, Waldron seeks to remedy some of this neglect by pointing out the important relationship in this period between war and the course of modern Chinese nationalism. Although less ambitious, this article also seeks to explore a more specific, yet also largely unexamined, aspect of this relationship, namely the emergence of anti-militarism, or more specifically anti-warlordism, as a defining theme in modern Chinese nationalism.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 795 - 827
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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