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The May Fourth Movement : Intellectual Revolution in Modern China
$27.28
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“A masterful study of what must now be recognized as one of the most significant intellectual movements in modern times…Chow Tse-tsung has produced a superb book so crammed with information that it is an indispensable reference guide for any student of modern China. Moreover, the skillful blending of historical detail with broad sociopolitical background has resulted in what is one of the finest interpretive studies of China yet to be produced.”
- Journal of the American Oriental Society
“In this book, Chow Tse-tsung gives the first comprehensive study of the movement in a Western language, and it I formidable. A thoroughly scholarly work, it opens fresh avenues to understanding modern China.”
- C. Martin Wilbur, The New York Times
“Dr. Chow is an expert guide and his conclusions are not likely to be disputed by impartial readers….A book which no student of revolutionary China can ignore.”
- C.P. FitzGerald, Pacific Affairs
“Dr. Chow’s exhaustive and well-informed study of this period fills a vital gap in our awareness of modern Chinese revolutionary history….Dr. Chow swings his searchlight over every detail of the period and maintains an undeviating objectivity.”
- The Times Literary Supplement
“The author has done full justice to the complexity and magnitude of his subject….The book is solidly founded on meticulous scholarship. Its greatest value lies in the wealth of material it has amassed from the voluminous Chinese journals. As a balanced, soundly informative account, Chow’s book will remain a major reference for many years to come.”
- The American Historical Review
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original edition:
Title The May Fourth Movement
Author Chow Tse-tsung
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 080470516X
Warlord Politics in China, 1916-1928
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The first comprehensive analytical treatment of warlordism in twentieth-century China, this book approaches regional militarism as a historic phenomenon of Chinese politics in the very complex and chaotic era of recent Chinese history.
After describing the emergence of militarist factions after the death of Yuan Shih-k’ai in 1916, the author analyzes their membership, recruiting capabilities, and sources of cohesion, the process presenting new information on their organization, methods of recruitment, quality of training, types of weapons, tactical and strategic concepts, and means of financing. On the strengths of this information, he offers a convincing explanation in balance-of-power terms for the baffling advances, retreats, clashes, and changes of allegiance that have puzzled students of the era.
His analysis makes clear how the leading warlords viewed the state, themselves, and each other. A concluding chapter presents an explanation based on systems theory for Kuomingtang’s triumph over the warlords who had sought to confine its domain to Kwang-tng.
The author has included as appendixes, the chronology of events and lists of national leaders and provincial military authorities from 1916 to 1928.
Hsi-sheng Ch’i is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina.
Introduction 1
militarists , warlord , China
The Emergence of the Military Factions 10
Hunan , Chihli , Chang Tso-lin
The Composition of the Military Factions 36
Chihli , Fengtien , Tuan Ch'i-jui
Recruitment 77
conscription , Kwangsi , Yunnan
Training 91
National Revolutionary Army , Yen Hsi-shan , Whampoa Academy
Weaponry and Tactics 116
Northern Expedition , China proper , Hanyang Arsenal
Economic Capabilities 150
opium , Chung Kuo , likin
Normative Aspects of Military Politics 179
Confucian , Manchu , southern militarists
The Chinese Political System 196
Northern Expedition , Chiang Kai-shek , Chekiang
Appendixes 241
A Political and Military Leaders 243
Yen Hui-ch'ing , President President , Pno Kuei-ch'ing
B Chronology 246
shih tzu , National Revolutionary Army , Jerome Ch'en
Bibliography 267
Index 277
Feng's , Sheridan , Feng
This is a reproduction edition from the following Stanford University Press scanned original:
Warlord politics in China, 1916-1928
By Hsi-sheng Chi
Published by Stanford University Press, 1976
ISBN 0804708940, 9780804708944
282 pages
