Pre-modern period
Although the traditional ChineseModern period
People's Liberation Army
Chinese military history underwent a dramatic transformation in the 20th century, with theRepublic of China Army
The Republic of China Army was founded as theSee also
* List of Chinese wars and battlesReferences
Further reading
For earlier periods, see Military history of China before 1911 (Further reading)General
* Elleman, Bruce A. ''Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795–1989''. New York: Routledge, 2001. * Graff, David Andrew, and Robin Higham, eds. ''A military history of China'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2012). * * Li, Xiaobing, ed. ''China at War: An Encyclopedia''. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2012. * Liu, Frederick Fu. ''A Military History of Modern China, 1924-1949'' (1972). * Lorge, Peter. “Discovering War in Chinese History.” ''Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident'' 1 38 (2014): 21–46. * Mitter, Rana. "Modernity, internationalization, and war in the history of modern China." ''Historical Journal'' (2005) 48#2 pp. 523–54Mid-Qing to 1912
* Elman, Benjamin A. “Naval Warfare and the Refraction of China's Self-Strengthening Reforms into Scientific and Technological Failure, 1865–1895.” Modern Asian Studies 2 (2004): 283–326. * Elliott, Jane E. ''Some Did It for Civilisation, Some Did It for Their Country: A Revised View of the Boxer War''. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. * Fung, Allen. “Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895.” ''Modern Asian Studies'' 4 (1996): 1007–31. * Halsey, Stephen R. ''Quest for Power: European Imperialism and the Making of Chinese Statecraft''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. * Klein, Thoralf. “The Boxer War-the Boxer Uprising.” ''Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence'' (2008). Onlin1911-1937
* Chan, Anthony B. ''Arming the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920–1928'' . 2nd ed. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. * Jordan, Donald A. ''The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926–1928''. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1976. * ——. ''China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932''. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001. * Diana Lary, “Warlord Studies.” ''Modern China'' 4 (1980):439–70. State of the field article. * McCord, Edward Allen. ''The Power of the Gun: The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. * Waldron, Arthur. ''From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924–1925''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. * ——. “The Warlord: Twentieth Chinese Understandings of Violence, Militarism, and Imperialism.” ''The American Historical Review'' 4 (1991): 1073–1100.The Second Sino-Japanese War
* Chang, Jui-te. “Nationalist Army Officers during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945.” ''Modern Asian Studies'' 4 (1996): 1033–56. * ———. “The National Army from Whampoa to 1949.” In A Military History of China , edited by David A. Graff and Robin D. S. Higham, 193– 209. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2012. * Ford, Daniel. ''Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group''. 2nd edition. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2007. * Gordon, David M. “The China-Japan War, 1931–1945.” ''The Journal of Military History'' 1 (2006): 137–82. Bibliographical essay. * Hagiwara Mitsuru. “The Japanese Air Campaigns in China, 1937– 1945.” In ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945'', edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013, 237– 55. * Harmsen, Peter. ''Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangzi''. Oxford: Casemate, 2013. * Haruo, Tohmatsu. “The Strategic Correlation Between the Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars.” In The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945, edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven, 423–45. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. * Hattori Satoshi with Edward J. Drea, “Japanese Operations from July to December 1937.” In The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 , edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven, 159–80. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. * Lary, Diana. “Defending China: The Battles of the Xuzhou Campaign.” In ''Warfare in Chinese History'', edited by Hans van de Ven, Leiden: Brill, 2000, pp. 398–427. * Lew, Christopher R. ''The Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War, 1945–49: An Analysis of Communist Strategy and Leadership'' (Routledge, 2009). * Mitter, Rana. "Old ghosts, new memories: China's changing war history in the era of post-Mao politics." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 38.1 (2003): 117-131. * Lary, Diana. “Defending China: The Battles of the Xuzhou Campaign.” In ''Warfare in Chinese History'', edited by Hans van de Ven, Leiden: Brill, 2000, pp 398–427. * Li, Chen. “The Chinese Army in the First Burma Campaign.” ''Journal of Chinese Military History'' 2 (2013): 43–73. * MacKinnon, Stephen R. “The Defense of the Central Yangtze.” In ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945'', edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven, 181–206. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. * ——, with Diana Lary, and Ezra F. Vogel, eds. ''China at War: Regions of China, 1937–45''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. * ——. ''Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. * Macri, Franco David. ''Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied Nations’ Proxy War with Japan, 1935–1941'' . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. * Martin, Bernd. “The Role of German Military Advisers on the Chinese Defense Efforts Against the Japanese, 1937–1938.” In ''Resisting Japan: Mobilizing for War in Modern China, 1935–1945'', edited by David Pong, 55–78. Norwalk: EastBridge, 2008. * Mitter, Rana. ''Forgotten Ally: China ’s World War II, 1937 –1945'' . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. * Peattie, Mark R., Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven, eds. ''The Battle for China:Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. * Phillips, Steve. “A Selected Bibliography of English Language Sources.” In The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 , edited by Mark R.Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, pp 371-76. * Spector, Ronald. “The Sino-Japanese War in the Context of World History.” In ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945'', edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, pp. 467-81. * Takeshi, Hara. “The Ichigō Offensive.” In ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945'', edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011m pp, 392– 402 * Tow, Edna. “The Great Bombing of Chongqing and the Anti-Japanese War, 1937– 1945.” In ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945'', edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven, 237–55. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, pp. 237-55. * Van de Ven, Hans. “The Sino-Japanese War in History.” In The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 , edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven, 446–66. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. * ——. ''China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China, 1937 - 1952'' . London: Profile Books, 2017; Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 2018. * van Slyke, Lyman P. “The Battle of the Hundred Regiments: Problems of Coordination and Control during the Sino-Japanese War.” ''Modern Asian Studies'' 4 (1996): 979–1005. * Wang, Qisheng. “Battle of Hunan and The Chinese Military's Response to Operation Ichigō.” In The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 , edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, pp. 403-18. * Yang, Kuisong. “Nationalist and Communist Guerilla Warfare in North China.” In The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937 –1945 , edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, pp 308–27. * Yang, Tianshi. “Chiang Kai-shek and the Battles of Shanghai and Nanjing.” In ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945'', edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, pp. 143-158. * Yu, Maochun. ''The Dragon's War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937 –1947''. New York: Naval Institute Press, 2013. * Zang, Yunhu. “Chinese Operations in Yunnan and Central Burma.” In ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937 –1945'', edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, pp. 386-91. * Zhang, Baijia. “China's Quest for Foreign Military Aid.” In ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945'', edited by Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea and Hans van de Ven, 283– 307. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011.Civil War 1945-1949
* Tanner, Harold Miles. "Guerrilla, mobile, and base warfare in Communist military operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947." ''Journal of Military History'' 67.4 (2003): 1177-122After 1949
* O'Dowd, Edward C. ''Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War: The Last Maoist War'' (Routledge, 2007). * Ryan, Mark A., David Michael Finkelstein, and Michael A. McDevitt. ''Chinese Warfighting: the PLA experience since 1949'' (ME Sharpe, 2003). * Wortzel, Larry M. ''The dragon extends its reach: Chinese military power goes global'' (Potomac Books, 2013). {{Authority control