Arming the Chinese

The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-28, Second Edition

By Anthony B. Chan
Categories: Security, Peace & Conflict Studies, Military History, Asian Studies, Political Science
Publisher: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774819909, 216 pages, October 2010
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774819916, 216 pages, January 2011
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Table of contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Warlord Unification Efforts: Background to the Armaments Trade

2 The Western Armaments Trade and Its Control in Warlord China

3 Chinese Warlords and the Armaments Trade

4 The Ramifications of the Western Armaments Trade

Conclusion

Notes

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

First published in 1982, Arming the Chinese remains the classic account of the arms trade in warlord China.

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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.