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Arming the Chinese

The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-28, Second Edition

by (author) Anthony B. Chan

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2010
Category
China, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774819909
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774819916
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $32.95

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First published in 1982, this book remains the classic account of the arms trade in warlord China. The second edition includes a new preface that reframes the argument within the paradigm of critical militarism and state criminality. Arming the Chinese tells the story of the Western and Japanese merchants and governments who provided weapons to warlords for their expanding armies. Although the warlords were hearty individualists who retained control over domestic affairs and rarely relied on single foreign suppliers, the armaments trade, Chan argues, was a new form of imperialism, which perpetrated the continued Western and Japanese domination of China.

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Contributor Notes

Anthony B. Chan is a professor in and founding associate dean of the Communication Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.