What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and
strategy Since the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military …

With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political
upheavals, the sixth edition of Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a …

Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has
been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating …

In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes explores insurgencies ranging across five
continents and spanning more than two centuries. Analyzing examples from North and …

Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large than the
turbulent years through which China moved from the overthrow of the last imperial dynasty …

In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist
organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) …

The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 introduced a major historical disjunction in
Chinese society, in its political-economic structure, in its social organization and institutions …

The foundation of this association has now been laid. People call us Blue Shirts or terrorists.
That is nothing. The important problem to be solved is how to create a new revolutionary …

" What are states, and how are they made? Scholars of European history assert that war
makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of …

From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been
preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are …