| The Power of the Gun |
| 1 | Preface |
| Introduction |
 | 1— Late Qing Military Organization |
| 2 | | 2— The Politicization of the Military: The New Army and the 1911 Revolution |
| 3 | | 3— The Provincial Regimes of the Early Republic: Civil Government under Military Governors |
| 4— Military Problems and Policies of the Provincial Regimes |
| 9 |  | 5— Centralization and the Provinces under the Dictatorship of Yuan Shikai |
| 1 | • | The Second Revolution |
| • | Centralization and the Demise of the Provincial Regimes |
| • | The Realignment of Central and Provincial Military Power |
| • | Military Governors and Central Control |
| • | Administrative Centralization in the Provinces |
| 7 | • | Political Authority and Coercion under the Dictatorship |
| 1 | • | Yuan's Monarchist Venture |
| • | Conclusion |
| 2 | | 6— The Anti-Monarchical War and the Inception of Warlordism |
| 7— The North-South War and the Triumph of Warlordism |
| 2 | | 8— Warlord Rule and the Failure of Civil Provincialism |
| Conclusion |
| Appendix: The Organizational Structure and Strength of Late Qing and Early Republican Armies |
| 6 | | Notes |
| Abbreviations |
| Glossary |
| 1 | Works Cited |
| 1 | | Index |