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The Devil Warlord of Republican China: Ma Bufang, the Northwest's Hungry Wolf 民国恶魔军阀：西北饿狼马步芳纪
This is no heroic anthem. It is the dark rise-to-power story of a warlord in the northwest. In 1903, the Qing dynasty was nearing its end, and wolves circled the northwest. Five-year-old Ma Bufang pointed a gun at a religious leader, learning from an early age the secrets of rule: “guns and scriptures.” Father and sons Ma would stop at nothing to climb the ladder of power: ten gold bars bought an official’s robes, letting them kill with impunity in the court’s name; artillery shells crushed a th
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Grand Commander of Bashu: The Story of Liu Xiang, King of Sichuan 巴蜀大都督：川王刘湘传
“Take up arms in chaotic times. Defend your home, defend Sichuan!” Eight words, one young man, and a century of upheaval in western Sichuan. In the late Qing and early Republican era, imperial rule crumbled, sworn brotherhoods ran rampant across Sichuan, and warlords carved up the land. Liu Xiang, the son of a well-to-do family in Dayi, tore up his Four Books and Five Classics and walked into a military academy with only a few pieces of silver in his pocket. On his first day, he shattered a bull
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