Edward A. McCord

Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China. London: 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. Routledge Press, 2015.

“Cultural Diplomacy and Taiwan's Soft Power,” in Tai Wan-chin, ed., Major Developments in the World and Taiwan in 2014. Taipei: Taiwan Elite, 2014, pp. 117-144.

“Confucius Institutes: Hardly a Threat to Academic Freedoms,” The Diplomat, March 27, 2014. http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/confucius-institutes-hardly-a-threat-to-academic-freedoms

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

“Militia Training and State Control in Republican Hunan,” Journal of Chinese Military History. Vol. 1 (2012), p. 1-19.

“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. Vancouver: 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.

“Local Bullies and Armed Force Entrepreneurs: Militia Leadership in Republican Hunan.” Twentieth Century China. Vol. 34, No. 2 (April 2009), pp. 5-29.

“Militia in Modern China: Lessons for Contemporary Conflicts.” American Journal of Chinese Studies. Vol. 15, No. 2 (October 2008), pp. 123-136.

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

 

“Gunbatsu no saihyoka: 20 seiki shoki chugoku ni okeru guntai to kokka kensetsu mondai” [A reappraisal of warlordism: military force and the problem of state-building in early twentieth century China].  In Shingai Kakumei no Tagen Kouzou [Myriad works on the 1911 Revolution].  Edited by Sonbun Kenkyukai [Sun Yat-sen research  association].  Tokyo: Kyuko Shoin, 2003, pp. 144-164. [Translated by Wataru Takashima].

Online English version at: http://www.china-study.net/McCord.htm

 

"Warlordism in Early Republican China." In A Military History of China. Edited by David A. Graff and Robin Higham. Westview Press, 2002, pp. 175-192.

"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.

"The 'Three Lords' of Qiyang County: Military Office and Local Elite Power in Republican China." Modern China. Vol. 23, No. 4 (October 1997), pp. 459-492.

Re-publication in Translation:

"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.

"Minguo chuqi Hunan de junshi zhengzhi" [The military affairs and politics of Hunan in the early Republic]. Hunan wenshi [Historical accounts of Hunan]. [Translated and edited by Zhou Qiuguang, Peng Decai and Zeng Pinyuan]. Part 1: Vol. 68 (1996), pp. 37-42; Part 2: Vol. 69 (1996), pp. 46-49; Part 3: Vol. 70 (1996), pp. 58-68.

"Hunan junfa de qiyuan" [The origins of Hunan's warlords]. Jishou daxue xuebao [Journal of Jishou University]. Vol. 17 (April 1996), pp. 26-33. [Translated by Yi Jiajin].

"Tan Yankai yu Hunan caibing xinshuo" [A new account of Tan Yankai and Hunan's troop disbandment]. Hunan Shifan Daxue shehui kexue xuebao [Hunan Normal University journal of social science]. 1995, no. 3 (May), pp. 104-110. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Li Yuanhong dudu zhiwei de wenren jichu" [The civil foundations of Li Yuanhong's military governorship]. Xinhai geming yanjiu dongtai [Developments in research on the 1911 Revolution]. 1994, no. 4 (December), pp. 30-35. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Civil War and the Emergence of Warlordism in Early Twentieth Century China." War and Society. Vol. 10, no. 2 (October 1992), pp. 35-56.

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"Warlordism at Bay: Civil Alternatives to Military Rule in Early Republican China." Republican China. Vol. 27, no. 1 (November 1991), pp. 38-69.

Re-publication in Translation:

"Local Military Power and Elite Formation: The Liu Family of Xingyi County, Guizhou." In Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance. Edited by Joseph Esherick and Mary Rankin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, pp. 162-188.

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"Militia and Local Militarization in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Case of Hunan." Modern China. Vol. 14, no. 2 (April 1988), pp. 156-187.

Re-publication in Translation (full and partial versions):

 

"Jindai junfa yu xinhai geming" [Modern warlords and the 1911 Revolution]. Huazhong xueyuan xuebao [Journal of Central China Teacher's College]. 1982, no. 5, pp. 144-150. [Translated by Tao Hongkai].

“The Taiwan Resource Center at The George Washington University.” Taiwan Communiqué. Vol. 119 (June-July 2008), pp. 22-23

"New Microfilm Collection of Published Chinese Materials From the 1930s and 1940s." Twentieth-Century China. Vol. 24, no. 2 (April 1999), pp. 107-110.

"Zhongxi xuezhe yanjiu Zhongguo jindai junfashi de bijiao" [A comparison of Western and Chinese research on modern Chinese warlordism]. Hunan Shifan Daxue shehui kexue xuebao [Hunan Normal University journal of social science]. 1993, no. 3, pp. 79-82. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Recent Progress in Warlord Studies in the People's Republic of China." Republican China. Vol. 9, no. 2 (1984), pp. 40-47.

“Beiyang Army,” “Military Colonies,” and “Warlords.” In Encyclopedia of Chinese History. Edited by Michael Dillon. Routledge. (Forthcoming, 2013).

“Militia.” In Encyclopedia of Modern China. Edited by David Pong. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009. Vol. 4, pp. 601-602.

“Militias in China.”  In Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Edited by Peter N. Stearns.  New York: Oxford University Press.  Forthcoming

 

“Warlords: China.”  In Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Edited by Peter N. Stearns.  New York: Oxford University Press.  Forthcoming.

 

"Militia." In China-Handbuch [China Handbook]. Edited by Brunhild Staiger and Stefan Friedrich. (Forthcoming, 2003).

"Warlord Period." In China-Handbuch [China Handbook]. Edited by Brunhild Staiger and Stefan Friedrich. (Forthcoming, 2003).

"Beiyang Army." In Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism. Edited by Wang Ke-wen. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998, pp. 27-28.

"Warlordism." In Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism. Edited by Wang Ke-wen. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998, pp. 382-383.

"Modern Chinese Educational Philanthropy: Xiong Xiling and the Xiangshan Children's Home," by Zhou Qiuguang. Republican China. Vol. 19, no. 1 (November 1993), pp. 51-83.

“Experiencing the Taiping Rebellion.” Review of What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China by Tobie Meyer-Fong. H-War, H-Net Reviews. July, 2013.

URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38608

Review of The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, edited by Mark Peattie, Edward J. Drea, and Hans van de Ven. In Chinese Review International. Vol. 17, no. 3 (2010), pp. 361-366.

Review of The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb, by Peter A. Lorge. In History: Reviews of New Books. Vol. 38, Issue 1 (Fall 2009), pp. 30.

Review of A History of the Modern Chinese Army, by Xiaobing Li. In Pacific Affairs, Volume 80, No. 4, Winter (February 2008), pp. 664-666.

Review of The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the Qing Dynasty, by Joanna Waley-Cohen. In International History Review. Vol. 28 (September 2007), pp. 600-601.

Review of Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County, by William T. Rowe. In China Quarterly. Vol. 190 (June 2007), pp. 495-497.

Review, with Diana Xiong, of Zhongguo cishan jianshi [A brief history of Chinese philanthropy], by Zhou Qiuguang and Zeng Guijin. In Washington Journal of Modern China. Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 122-125.

Review of Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese States, by Elizabeth J. Perry.  In The Chinese Historical Review.  Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall 2006), pp. 395-398.

 

Review of Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China, edited by Robert J. Antony and Jane Kate Leonard.  In The China Journal.  Vol. 51 (January 2004), pp. 200-202

 

Review of New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938-1941, by Gregor Benton. In China Quarterly. Vol. 168 (December 2001), pp. 1017-1019.

Review of Sun Yat-sen, by Marie-Claire Bergère. Reviewed in China Quarterly. Vol. 167 (September 2001), p. 765-766.

Review of Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940, by Julia C. Strauss. In The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 566 (November 1999), pp. 168-169.

Review of Counterrevolution in China: Wang Sheng and the Kuomintang, by Thomas A. Marks. In China Quarterly. Vol. 155 (September 1998), pp. 679-680.

Review of The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937, by Brian Martin. In China Quarterly. Vol. 148 (December 1996), pp. 1385-1386.

Review of China's Warlords, by David Bonavia. In China Quarterly. Vol. 148 (December 1996), pp. 1387-1388

Review of Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937, by Frederic Wakeman. In China Quarterly. Vol. 146 (June 1996), pp. 616-617.

Review of Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China, by R. Keith Schoppa. InChina Quarterly. Vol. 145 (March 1996), pp. 228-230.

Review of War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945, by Chang-tai Hung. In Pacific Affairs. Vol. 68, no. 4 (Winter 1995-1996).

Review of China at War, 1901-1949, by Edward L. Dreyer. In H-War, summer 1995.

Review of The Kwangsi Way in Kuomintang China, 1931-1939, by Eugene William Levitch. In China Quarterly. Vol. 140 (December 1994), pp. 1164-1165.

Review of Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor, by Elizabeth Perry. In Washington Journal of Modern China. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall/winter 1994), pp. 119-120.

Review of The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, by Jerome Ch'en. In Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 53, no. 4 (November 1994), pp. 1230-1231

Review of Student Nationalism in China, 1924-1949, by Lincoln Li. In Pacific Affairs. Vol. 67, no. 4 (Winter 1994), pp. 602-603.

Review of Xiong Xiling yu cishan jiaoyu shiye, by Zhou Qiuguang. In Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 51, no. 2 (May 1992), pp. 399-400.

Review of The Eagle and the Dragon: The United States Military in China, 1901-1937, by Dennis L. Noble. In Journal of Asian History. Vol. 26, no. 1 (1992), pp. 104-105.

Review of Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers, 1911-1937, by Diana Lary. In Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 45, no. 4 (August 1986), pp. 822-824.