This book offers the first comprehensive study of the ways in which China's men of guns (so-called "warlords") and men of letters (May Fourth intellectuals) engaged one another for the making of a Chinese federation between 1919 and 1923.
Vivienne Xiangwei Guo, Ph.D. (2015), King's College London, is a lecturer in modern Chinese history at King's College London. She has multiple publications on modern China, including Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders (Routledge, 2019).