China, 1927, is the world of The Warlord, a saga as awesome in scale as the land with which it deals, as rich, as varied, as deep, and as brilliant. China in 1927 is emerging turbulently into the modern world, its ancient foundations buckling upward, its surface crossed and criss-crossed by international adventurers and provocateurs and opportunists. Since the expulsion of the Manchu, there has been no real central power in China. General Chang understands the challenges and dangers of change better perhaps than any of the other warlords. He is a man of strict honor and uncompromising principles, as much a scholar as he is a soldier. Tang begins to fear that he can save his country only by countering evil with evil, and at this crucial point a group of foreigners enter his life.......
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Warlord (Mass Market Paperback)
Los sueños, reflexiones, experiencias y vida del americano Embree, la rusa blanca Vera y el general Tang no son más que meros pretextos que tiene el autor para introducirnos en el mundo de la caótica China de los años 20 cuando el país era regido por señores de la guerra que usaban alianzas, traiciones, batallas y reconciliaciones para pasar de un bando a otro, del bando de Chang Tso-ling (1875-1928) al de Chiang Kai-chek (1887-1975) y que no dudan en usar influencias de potencias occidentales, rusa o japonesa para adquirir armas y poder.
Una novela algo densa pero interesante, llena de descripciones de los paisajes y monumentos importantes de la China Imperial, costumbres, historia y filosofía oriental.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Intertaining and long, but fun all the way,
By Jack Purcell (Placitas, NM USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Warlord (Hardcover)
It's nice to find a 750 page novel that's able to keep the reader occupied without skipping over a single page or mentally editing, trying to find a few pages here and there that could have been cut during the editing process. It's also nice to find a novel that actually has characters casting yarrow sticks and consulting the I Ching, believing in what the consultations reveal.The War Lord's a good book. It isn't a great book, but as a historical fiction work about China, it picks a good time as a setting and pulls the load for the time it takes to read it. I don't have any qualms about recommending it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Superb,
By Greg Husby (Montana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Warlord (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this book on my way to and from work in Portland, OR, via public metro. I was a young man then. I have raised four children to adulthood since. This book had a profound impact on my use of logic and also impacted my respect of life itself. I am now a much older man and still to this day qoute, "whoever or whatever it is that gives such things gives us our essence at birth. The design of this essence starts to unfold. To watch it unfold is to live. To watch it with confidence and good humor is to follow the way." Dude was true to himself and feared nothing. Nuff said. Definate good reading.
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