ABSTRACT
The Northern Warlords had been an important political and military group in the modern history of China. The Northern Group gave birth to the Northern Warlords, and the Northern Warlords were the last developmental stage of the Northern Group, in which the Northern Group was heading for its extinction”. The Northern Warlords regime only had the relationship of mutual utilization with the bourgeoisie and the landlord class. Lai Xinxia stressed that it was acceptable to say that the Northern Warlords Group contained the bourgeois nature, but we should pay attention to the problems of time and stage. Some scholars even held that working as the imperialist powers’ tools for their colonial domination of China should be a main feature of the Northern Warlords. Hu Yuhai thought that the Fengtian Warlord Group was formed in the early period of the Republic of China.
