Was China during the Kuomintang era similar to feudalism or the Edo Shogunate?

Warlords entered the institutional framework of the Republic of China after Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition, but
the fact that they still reigned like kings in their own bases
seems similar to the relationship between the Japanese Edo Shogunate and the daimyo.
China at that time seemed to be a more severe feudal society than Joseon;
since warlord families and the small number of landlords under them controlled everything,
it seems it couldn't be helped;;