CONTENTS

List of Maps

Preface to the Updated Edition

Chronology

Editors' Note

  1. Introduction, Robin Higham and David A. Graff

  2. Continuity and Change, Edward L. Dreyer

  3. State Making and State Breaking, David A. Graff

  4. The Northern Frontier, David C. Wright

  5. Water Forces and Naval Operations, Peter Lorge

  6. Military Writings, Ralph D. Sawyer

  7. The Qing Empire, Paul Lococo Jr.

  8. The Taiping Rebellion: A Military Assessment of Revolution and Counterrevolution, Maochun Yu

  9. Beyond the Marble Boat: The Transformation of the Chinese Military, 1850–1911, Richard S. Horowitz

10. Warlordism in Early Republican China, Edward A. McCord

11. The National Army from Whampoa to 1949, Chang Jui-te

12. The Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1931–1945, Stephen R. MacKinnon

13. “Political Power Grows out of the Barrel of a Gun”: Mao and the Red Army, William Wei

14. Always Faithful: The PLA from 1949 to 1989, Dennis J. Blasko

15. China's Foreign Conflicts since 1949, Larry M. Wortzel

16. Recent Developments in the Chinese Military, June Teufel Dreyer

Chinese Place Names

About the Contributors

Index