| The power of the gun: the emergence of modern Chinese warlordism EA McCord (No Title), 1993 | 230 | 1993 |
| Militia and local militarization in Late Qing and Early Republican China: the case of Hunan EA McCord Warfare in China Since 1600, 215-246, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| Confucius Institutes: Hardly a threat to academic freedoms EA McCord The diplomat 27, 426-32, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| Local military power and elite formation: The Liu family of Xingyi county, Guizhou EA McCord Chinese local elites and patterns of dominance, 162-90, 1990 | 25 | 1990 |
| Burn, Kill, Rape, and Rob: Military Atrocities, Warlordism, and Anti-Warlordism in Republican China EA McCord Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Modern China, 18-47, 2001 | 24 | 2001 |
| Local militia and state power in Nationalist China EA McCord Modern China 25 (2), 115-141, 1999 | 22 | 1999 |
| Warlords against warlordism: The politics of anti-militarism in early twentieth-century China EA McCord Modern Asian Studies 30 (4), 795-827, 1996 | 22 | 1996 |
| The power of the gun: the emergence of modern Chinese Warlordism. Berkeley EA Mccord California: University of California Press, 1993 | 17 | 1993 |
| Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China EA McCord Routledge, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| Ethnic Revolt, State-Building and Patriotism in Republican China: The 1937 West Hunan Miao Abolish-Military-Land Resist-Japan Uprising EA McCord Modern Asian Studies 45 (6), 1499-1533, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Warlordism in early republican China EA McCord A Military History of China, 175-192, 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
| Cries that shake the earth: military atrocities and popular protests in warlord China EA McCord Modern China 31 (1), 3-34, 2005 | 9 | 2005 |
| Where’s the Beef? Confucius Institutes and Chinese studies in American Universities EA McCord Critical Asian Studies 51 (3), 426-432, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Rebel economies: Warlords, insurgents, humanitarians J Benthall, W Caferro, G Carbonnier, C Cramer, P Le Billon, Z Mampilly, ... Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Victims and victimizers: warlord soldiers and mutinies in Republican China EA McCord Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China, 130-152, 2011 | 5 | 2011 |
| Local bullies and armed force entrepreneurs: militia leadership in Republican Hunan EA McCord Twentieth-Century China 34 (2), 5-29, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| Civil War and the Emergence of Warlordism in Early Twentieth Century China EA McCord Warfare in China Since 1600, 273-294, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| Military atrocities in warlord China E McCord Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History, 210-237, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| Synarchy and the Chinese people: a plea for internationalization in warlord China EA McCord Modern China 39 (5), 475-510, 2013 | 4 | 2013 |
| Toward a Social History of Modern Chinese Warlordism EA McCord Journal of Chinese Military History 11 (1), 34-55, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
