TY  - BOOK
AU  - LI Xiaobing
TI  - A history of the modern Chinese army
SN  - 9780813124384 (hbk) :
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - CHINA
KW  - ARMED FORCES
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - PEOPLES LIBERATION ARMY
N2  - 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
ER  -