War in Modern China A Military History | History

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This book offers comprehensive coverage of China’s military history from the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) to present. China has become one of the great world powers of the twenty-first century. As a result Chinese leaders and observers outside of China alike seek to explain China’s strategic thought and action. In doing so they routinely refer to China’s military history. This volume examines this history beginning with the Qing dynasty’s era of imperial expansion and subsequent decline continuing with the wars against foreign aggression and internal uprisings of the nineteenth century the revolutionary overthrow of the Qing in 1911 and seemingly constant wars of the first half of the twentieth…