Military force and elite power in the formation of modern China / Edward A. McCord.

The China we know today emerged at the end of a long period of internal rebellions, civil wars, foreign invasions, and revolutionary insurrections that stretched across the nineteenth century to the mid-point of the twentieth. This book explores one important consequence of this situation--the incre...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	McCord, Edward Allen (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:	Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 93.
Subjects:	China > Politics and government. China > Armed Forces. China > Military policy. Armed Forces. Military policy. Politics and government. China.