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Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics 1925-1937
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics 1925-1937
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Diana Lary
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| Series | Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:292 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Asian and Middle Eastern history |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521104883
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| Classifications | Dewey:951.042 |
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| Audience | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
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| Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
19 March 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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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