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Notes on the contributor
Edward A. McCord is Professor of History and Vice-Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. His research has focused on Chinese military–civil relations in the modern era, particularly during the warlord period. He is author of, most recently, Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China (2014).
Notes
1 Spence Citation1969.
2 Cohen Citation1984.
3 Spence Citation1969, 289, 293.
4 Kirby Citation1997, 434.
5 Kirby Citation1997, 456.
6 Gewirtz 2017, 245.
7 Gewirtz 2017, 19.
8 Eisenman Citation2014.
9 Gewirtz 2017, 260.
10 Gewirtz 2017, 261.