Warfare in China Since 1600

Kenneth Swope is Professor at the Department of History, Ball State University, USA.

• Contents: Introduction. From Ming to Qing (ca 1600-1800): A few good men: the Li family and China's northern frontier in the late Ming, Kenneth M. Swope; To nourish a strong military: Kangxi's preferential treatment of his military officials, Yingcong Dai; Military mobilization in 17th- and 18th-century China, Russia and Mongolia, Peter C. Perdue; Commemorating war in 18th-century China, Joanna Waley-Cohen. Imperial Decline and Fall (ca 1800-1911): Naval warfare and the refraction of China's self-strengthening reforms into scientific and technological failure 1865-1895, Benjamin A. Elman; Testing the self-strengthening: the Chinese army in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895, Allen Fung; Militia and local militarization in late Qing and early republican China: the case of Hunan, Edward A. McCord. The warlord Era and the Nationalist Decade, 1911-1937: The military in the republic, Hans van de Ven; Civil war and the emergence of warlordism in early 20th-century China, Edward A. McCord; War and the rise of nationalism in 20th-century China, Arthur Waldron. War of Resistance Against Japan and Civil War, 1937-1949: The tragedy of Wuhan, 1938, Stephan MacKinnon; The battle of the hundred regiments: problems of coordination and control during the Sino-Japanese war, Lyman P. van Slyke; Community defence and the Chinese communist revolution: Henan's Du Eight neighbourhood pact, Odoric Y.K. Wou; Guerrilla, mobile and base warfare in communist military operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947, Harold M. Tanner. Post-1949 China: Transplanting the Chinese model: Chinese military advisers and the first Vietnam war, 1950-1954, Qiang Zhai; The Vietnam War, 1964-1969: a Chinese perspective, Xiaoming Zhang; Old ghosts, new memories: China's changing war history in the era of post-Mao politics, Rana Mitter; Name index.