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A history of the modern Chinese army / Xiaobing Li.

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LI Xiaobing

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2007Description: xvi, 413 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

9780813124384 (hbk) :

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Summary: Traces the PLA from its origins over several thousand years ago as essentially an army of peasants, through the twentieth century mass military of the Chinese Communist Party, to the huge transformation begun in the mid 1990s. The latter was made possible by rapid economic and social change to which military transformation in turn also contributed. Makes extensive use of Chinese source materials.

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Traces the PLA from its origins over several thousand years ago as essentially an army of peasants, through the twentieth century mass military of the Chinese Communist Party, to the huge transformation begun in the mid 1990s. The latter was made possible by rapid economic and social change to which military transformation in turn also contributed. Makes extensive use of Chinese source materials.

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