Books by Diana Lary

Diana Lary examines the origins, training and behaviour of the ordinary soldiers of Warlord China and why they were the direct agents of oppression and terror. It thus provides a case study of the misery inflicted by military regimes on civilian societies.

A study of the tensions between region and nation in Republican China. Diana Lary gives a detailed examination of Kwangsi province in south-west China, the home base of a major warlord clique which was important both for its interesting internal politics and for its national influence in the late 1920s and the 1930s.