China's Wars: Rousing The Dragon 1894-1949 General Military Sports and the president of the

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China's Wars: Rousing The Dragon 1894-1949 General Military Sports and the president of theChina is one of the great powers of the modern world. Yet in the late 19th century China was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire upon whom the European colonial powers could impose their wishes at will. China's Wars describes the series of conflicts from 1894 to 1949 that forged modern China, from colonial clashes such as the Boxer Rebellion, through the chaotic years of warlord domination to the Japanese invasion, the Second World War and the