Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are a bibliographical essays describing the source materials on which each author's account is based Book Details No knowledge of Chinese is necessary for readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies. Diana Larys book includes in translation documents of the period to. Their parallels in other, contemporary societies are equally influential. Each chapter is written by a specialist from the international community of sinological scholars. The soldiers who served in the warlord armies were considered to be the lowest of the low, and have not for that reason been a subject for study, but their impact on their society was enormous. Special reference is made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and other rebellions, and the dynasty's survival in uneasy cooperation with the British, Russian, French, American and other invaders. 4 (Oct., 1980) Diana Lary, Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers. Contributors study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration. from narratives of military change that focus exclusively on the technology and.

that Chinese warlords, soldiers, and bandits were involved in this illegal. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. In her article, Warlord Studies, Diana Lary comments that no single. Hsi-sheng Chi, Warlord Politics in China, 1916-1928 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press) is an overview that includes several chapters on military capabilities. This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. For the view from below, see Diana Lary, Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers, 1911-1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

Warlord Soldiers by Diana Lary