Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics 1925-1937A study of the tensions between region and nation in Republican China. Diana Lary gives a detailed examination of Kwangsi province in south west China, the home base of a major warlord clique that was important both for its interesting internal politics and for its national influence in the late 1920s and the 1930s. She reconstructs with imagination and thoroughness the intricate political and military history of the nation, but without losing sight