Edward A. McCord

Selected Publications

Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China. Routledge, 2014.

The Power of the Gun: The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.


“Military Atrocities in Warlord China.” In Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History. From Ancient China to the Communist Takeover. Edited by Kai Filipiak. London and New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 210-237

“Synarchy and the Chinese People: A Plea for Internationalization in Republican China,” Modern China. Vol. 39, No. 5 (September 2013), pp. 475-510.

“Victims and Victimizers: Warlord Soldiers and Mutinies in Republican China.” In Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China. Edited by James Flath and Norman Smith. University of British Columbia Press, 2011, pp. 130-152.

“Ethnic Revolt, State-Building and Patriotism in Republican China: The West Hunan Miao Abolish-Military-Land Resist-Japan Uprising.” Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 46, no. 6 (2011), pp. 1-35.

"Cries that Shake the Earth:  Military Atrocities and Popular Protests in Warlord China.” Modern China.  Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 3-34

 

"Burn, Rape, Kill and Rob: Military Atrocities, Warlordism and Anti-Warlordism in Republican China.” In The Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Chinese Society. Edited by Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001, pp. 3-47.

"Local Militia and State Power in Nationalist China." Modern China. Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 1999), pp. 115-141.

"Warlords against Warlordism: The Politics of Anti-Militarism in Early Twentieth Century China." Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 30, part 4 (October 1996), pp. 795-827.

 
Complete List of Publications