Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989

Name: Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989
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ISBN: 9780415214742

ISBN-10: 0415214742

ISBN-13: 9780415214742

Edition: 2001

Authors: Bruce A. Elleman

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Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite China? Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 seeks to answer these questions by exploring the most important domestic and international conflicts over the past two hundred years, from the last half of the Qing empire through to modern day China. This book reveals how most of China's wars during this period were fought to preserve Chinese unity, and examines the cyclical pattern of imperial decline, domestic chaos and finally the creation of a new unifying dynasty. Exposing China as an imperialist country, and one which has often manipulated western powers in its favour, Bruce A. Elleman seeks to…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/27/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



The opium wars and the origins of China's modern warfare


the Taiping rebellion


the Nian, Muslim and Tungan rebellions


the Ili crisis and China's defense of Xinjiang


the Sino-French war over Anam


the Sino- French war, 1894-95


the Boxer uprising, 1900


Chinese warlords and modern warfare


the nationalists' northern expedition to unite China


Sino-Soviet conflict in Manchuria, 1926-30


the Sino-Japanese war, 1937- 45


China's nationalist/communist civil war


China's role in the Korean war


the 1962 Sino-Indian border dispute and the Vietnam war


the Sino- Soviet territorial conflict


the Sino-Vietnamese conflict