CONTENTS
| Acknowledgments | vii |
| Introduction HANS VAN DE VEN | 1 |
| The Han abolition of universal military service MARK E. LEWIS | 33 |
| Dou Jiande's dilemma: Logistics, strategy, and state formation in seventh-century China DAVID A. GRAFF | 77 |
| Tibet in Tang's grand strategy DENIS TWITCHETT | 106 |
| Waging war for peace? The peace accord between the Song and the Liao in AD 1005 NAP-YIN LAU | 180 |
| Mountain fortress defence: The experience of the Southern Song and Korea in resisting the Mongol invasions HUANG K'UAN-CHUNG | 222 |
| Culture, history, and imperial Chinese strategy: Legacies of the Qing conquests PETER C. PERDUE | 252 |
| Military dimensions of the 'Boxer Uprising' in Shanxi, 1898–1901 ROGER R. THOMPSON | 288 |
| New states of war: Communist and Nationalist warfare and state building (1928–1934) HANS VAN DE VEN | 321 |
| Defending China: The battles of the Xuzhou campaign DIANA LARY | 398 |
| Conclusion JEREMY BLACK | 428 |
| Index | 443 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Warfare in Chinese History.
Contributors: Hans J. Van Der Ven - Editor.
Publisher: Brill.
Place of publication: Boston.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: Not available.
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