A study of the tensions between region and nation in Republican
China. Diana Lary gives a detailed examination of Kwangsi province
in south-west China, the home base of a major warlord clique that
was important both for its interesting internal politics and for
its national influence in the late 1920s and the 1930s. She
reconstructs with imagination and thoroughness the intricate
political and military history of the nation, but without losing
sight of the overall regional character of the Kwangsi government
and its policies. She shows how the regional leaders responded to
central breakdown, what sense they had of the nation even in its
weakened condition. China is usually studied as a monolithic
entity; Diana Lary demonstrates that such a simple view must fail,
that China also consists of a large number of distinct regions with
special patterns of relationship to the centre.
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