War and the military in traditional China
Manchu conquest and the Qing dynasty
The Anglo-Chinese wars, 1839-1860
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 1851-1864
At war with France and Japan, 1864-1895
The new armies and the 1911 revolution, 1895-1916
Warlords and the Northern Expedition, 1916-1928
Nationalist and Communist armies, 1927-1937
Manchuria and the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945
The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949
China and the Korean War, 1950-1953
Border conflicts: Jinmen, India, and the USSR, 1958-1969
China, Indochina, and the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
The Chinese military since 1980.
