From
Sino-Americana, by Perry Anderson (London Review of Books, 2012), Vol. 34 No. 3 · 9 February 2012, pages 20-22
"The historical reality was that no outstanding leaders emerged from the confused morass of the KMT in the Republican period. "
"The military clique that ruled Guangxi, on the border with Indochina, were better generals and ran a more progressive and efficient government, but their province was too poor and remote for them to be able to compete successfully against Chiang." ( whom was based in Shanghai and Zhejiang, and the surrounding Yangtze delta region, where he cultivated connections in both criminal and business worlds, in what was by far the richest and most industrialised zone in China)."
