Coercion, Capital, and Warlord Proto-States: Variation in Warmaking Propensity among Chinese Warlords, 1916–1928

• In Event: State Building and War Making in East Asia

Brief Overview

Using original data on 300 battles in the 12-year Warlord Era, Qian tackles the puzzle of war initiation by weak sub-national political entities by evaluating the fiscal dependence of Chinese warlords on commercial and agricultural elites.

Author

• Jingyuan Qian, University of Wisconsin-Madison