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| Tango01 | 09 Mar 2020 1:15 p.m. PST |
"I have just finished reading Philip Jowett's book ‘The Bitter Peace: Conflict in China 1928-37'. This is a military history of China from the end of the Warlord Era to the full-blown war with Japan. The Nationalist victory was supposed to usher in a period of peace for China. Instead, most provinces had endemic banditry, with up to a staggering 500,000 men in organised bands. Many of these fought over the opium trade as millions of Chinese were addicted to the drug during this period, forming the main source of warlord income. The other source of income was taxation of almost everything, often many years in advance, adding to the economic depredations of the ordinary Chinese…"
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