A Military History of China

List of Maps

LIS T OF MAPS 1.1 Physical Map of China xiv 1.2 Relative Size of China and the Forty-eight Contiguous U.S. States 3 1.3 China’s Provinces in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century 5 1.4 A Strong Dynasty: Han circa 100 B.C.E. 7 1.5 A Weak Dynasty: Ming circa 1640 C.E. 7 3.1 China’s Physiographic Macroregions 49 4.1 Eurasian Steppelands 59 8.1 The Taiping Rebellion, Showing Main Area of Taiping Control in Early 1854 139 10.1 China During the Warlord Period, 1916–1928 181 12.1 China During the War of Resistance, 1937–1945, Showing Major Railway Lines and Maximum Extent of Japanese Occupation 221 13.1 The Long March, 1934–1935, Showing the Route of the First Front Army 241 14.1 China’s Military Regions in the 1970s 257 14.2 China’s Military Regions in the 1990s 257 15.1 China and Its Neighbors 269 vii ...