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CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN WARLORD CHINA: Tradition, Modernization and Manchuria. By Ronald Suleski. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. 2002. xvi, 302 pp. US$63.95, cloth. ISBN 0-8204-5278-5.

Warlords have a bad name. They behave badly, they swagger, they rob and plunder, they fight senseless wars. National governments and armies hate them because they accept no authority. Civilian populations hate them because their military ambitions always take precedence over the interest...