Rise of the Chinese Militray Power / / Ralph L. Powell.
A study of the growth of semi-personal Chinese armies and the rise of militarists to a position that permitted them to seize power upon the breakdown of the monarchic system. It traces the modernization of the land forces of the Chinese Empire and evaluates progress attained up to the establishment...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1955 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (394 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1. THE CHINESE ARMIES PRIOR TO 1895
- CHAPTER 2. THE CREATION OF THE NEW-STYLE ARMIES, 1895-1897
- CHAPTER 3. THE HUNDRED DAYS AND THE BOXER REBELLION, 1898-1900
- CHAPTER 4. MILITARY MODERNIZATION UNDER THE EMPRESS-DOWAGER, 1901-1903
- CHAPTER 5. MILITARY AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM, 1904-1906
- CHAPTER 6. PROGRESS IN MILITARY TRAINING AND ORGANIZATION, 1904-1906
- CHAPTER 7. THE COLLAPSE OF THE OLD ORDER, 1907-1911
- CHAPTER 8. THE ARMY AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1911
- CHAPTER 9. CONCLUSIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS
- INDEX