China''s Use of Military Force - Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March

Klappentext This 2003 book examines China's militarism, concluding that today's leaders may use force more readily than their predecessors. Zusammenfassung This 2003 book examines China's use of force domestically and abroad. The author warns that a 'Cult of Defense' disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive! while recent changes in PLA suggest that today's leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Layers of Culture: 2. The Chinese cult of defense; 3. Bringing in the military; Part II. Use of Force in the Mao Era: 4. Lips and teeth: China's decision to intervene in Korea; 5. Support the Left: PLA intervention in the Cultural Revolution; Part III. Use of Force in the Deng Era: 6. A self-defense counterattack: China's 1979 war with Vietnam; 7. Why the People's Army fired on the people: Beijing, 1989; Part IV. Use of Force in the Post-Deng Era: 8. Show of force: the 1995-6 Taiwan Strait crisis; 9. Conclusion: explaining China's use of force.

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• Authors: Andrew Scobell, Andrew (University of Louisville Scobell
• Assisted by: William Kirby (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2003
• EAN: 9780521819794
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81979-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Modern China (Hardco; Cambridge Modern China; Cambridge Modern China Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education