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- Arming the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-28, Second Edition
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of British Columbia Press
summary
First published in 1982, this book remains the classic account of the arms trade in warlord China. The second edition includes a new preface that reframes the argument within the paradigm of critical militarism and state criminality. Arming the Chinese tells the story of the Western and Japanese merchants and governments who provided weapons to warlords for their expanding armies. Although the warlords were hearty individualists who retained control over domestic affairs and rarely relied on single foreign suppliers, the armaments trade, Chan argues, was a new form of imperialism, which perpetrated the continued Western and Japanese domination of China.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- p. vii
- List of Maps
- p. viii
- Preface to the Second Edition
- pp. ix-xx
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxi-xxii
- Introduction
- pp. xxiii-xxviii
- Conclusion
- pp. 129-138
- Abbreviations
- p. 163
- Bibliography
- pp. 164-172
Additional Information
ISBN
9780774819916
MARC Record
OCLC
750236180
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No