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020			_a9780813124384 (hbk) : _c39.95 USD
100	1		_aLI Xiaobing
245			_aA history of the modern Chinese army / _cXiaobing Li.
260			_aLexington : _bUniversity Press of Kentucky, _c2007
300			_axvi, 413 p. : _bill., maps.
520			_aTraces 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.
650			_aCHINA _xARMED FORCES _xHISTORY
650			_aCHINA _xPEOPLES LIBERATION ARMY
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