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China in the 1910s and 1920s was dominated by a succession of military strongmen who fought with each other for the control of the country. Weak central governm

Defeated in the Sino-Japanese War 1894–95 and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Imperial China collapsed into revolution and a republic was proclaimed in 1912. Fro

Diana Lary examines how the common soldier in Warlord China became an instrument of oppression and terror.

The warlord period - from 1912 until roughly the beginning of the Second World War - is one of the most extraordinary and colourful in the whole of Chinese hist

The Chinese Nationalist Army was at war almost continuously from 1931 until 1949 fighting first against the invading Japanese Imperial Army until 1945. This was