Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 Book

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	Preface
Pt. 1	Imperial decline	1
1	The secret societies and Qing dynastic decline	3
2	The Opium War and the origin of China's modern warfare	13
3	The Taiping Rebellion and the Arrow War	35
4	The Nian, Muslim, and Tungan Rebellions	57
Pt. 2	Imperial fall	69
5	The Ili Crisis and China's defense of Xinjiang against Russia	71
6	The Sino-French War in Annam	82
7	The Sino-Japanese War and the partitioning of China	94
8	The Boxer anti-foreign Uprising	116
9	The Chinese Revolution and the fall of the Qing	138
Pt. 3	Imperial interregnum	147
10	The warlord era and the Nationalists' Northern Expedition to unite China	149
11	The Sino-Soviet conflict in Manchuria	178
12	The Sino-Japanese conflict	194
13	China's Nationalist-Communist civil war	217
Pt. 4	Imperial resurgence	233
14	China's role in the Korean War	235
15	The Sino-Indian border dispute	254
16	The Sino-Soviet territorial conflict	269
17	The Sino-Vietnamese conflict	284
Pt. 5	The dynastic question	299
18	The Tiananmen Massacre and the future of the PLA	301
	Notes	310
	Bibliography	339
	Index	353