China's use of military force : beyond the Great Wall and the long march /
In this 2003 study of China's militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995-6) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square....
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Cambridge modern China series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Chinese cult of defense
- Bringing in the military
- Lips and teeth: China's decision to intervene in Korea
- Support the Left: PLA intervention in the Cultural Revolution
- A self-defense counterattack: China's 1979 war with Vietnam
- Why the People's Army fired on the people: Beijing, 1989
- Show of force: the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait crisis
- Conclusion: explaining China's use of force.
