Civil-military relations in Chinese history [electronic resource] : from ancient China to the Communist takeover / edited by Kai Filipiak.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The rise and fall of the system of rites and music and the evolution of the Zhou army / Huang Pumin -- 2. Military codes of virtue : aspects of wen and wu in China's Warring States Period / Kai Filipiak -- 3. The master of works (sikong) in the armies of the Qin and Han dynasties / Song Jie -- 4. Re-thinking the civil-military divide in the southern dynasties / Andrew Chittick -- 5. Changes in the title systems for generals in ancient China / Zhang Jinlong -- 6. Origins and selection criteria of soldiers in different stages of the Tang dynasty (618-907) / Sun Jimin -- 7. The drum and wind palace music of the Tang and Song dynasty / Yu Filipiak -- 8. The rise of the martial : rebalancing wen and wu in Song dynasty culture / Peter Lorge -- 9. Postcards from the edge : competing strategies for the defense of Liaodong in the late Ming / Kenneth M. Swope -- 10. The adaptation of Chinese military techniques to Choson Korea, their validation, and the social dynamics thereof / Felix Siegmund -- 11. Craftsmen and specialist troops in early modern Chinese armies / Ulrich Theobald -- 12. Military atrocities in warlord China / Edward McCord -- 13. The military ascendant : the ascendancy of the Chinese military during the Resistance War 1937-1945 (and afterwards) / Diana Lary.