Armies are made up of a small number of officers and a large number
of ordinary soldiers, recruited from the working class or
peasantry. When the military dominates a society, as it did in
Warlord China, it is these ordinary soldiers who become the direct
agents of oppression and terror. Asking who these men were, and why
they turned on their own society, this book looks at the origins,
training and behaviour of the soldiers of Warlord China. It thus
provides a case study of the misery inflicted by military regimes
on civilian societies. Military control in China was long drawn
out, and fragmented. The Warlord period, in the first years of
Republican China, has been designated as the darkest of Modern
Chinese history. The soldiers who served in the warlord armies were
considered to be the lowest of the low, and have not for that
reason been a subject for study, but their impact on their society
was enormous. Their parallels in other, contemporary societies are
equally influential. Diana Lary's book includes in translation
documents of the period to illuminate the human side of her theme.
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