A History of the Modern Chinese ArmyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2007年6月1日 - 432 頁 Since the establishment of the Red Army in 1927, China's military has responded to profound changes in Chinese society, particularly its domestic politics, shifting economy, and evolving threat perceptions. Recently tensions between China and Taiwan and other east Asian nations have aroused great interest in the extraordinary transformation and new capabilities of the Chinese army. In A History of the Modern Chinese Army, Xiaobing Li, a former member of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), provides a comprehensive examination of the PLA from the Cold War to the beginning of the twenty-first century that highlights the military's central function in modern Chinese society. In the 1940s, the Chinese army was in its infancy, and many soldiers were rural conscripts and volunteers who had received little formal schooling. The Chinese military rapidly increased its mobility and weapon strength, and the Korean War and Cold War offered intense combat experience that not only allowed soldiers to hone their fighting techniques but also helped China to develop military tactics tailored to the surrounding countries whose armies posed the most immediate threats. Yet even in the 1970s, the completion of a middle school education (nine years) was considered above-average, and only 4 percent of the 224 top Chinese generals had any college credit hours. However, in 1995 the high command began to institute massive reforms to transform the PLA from a labor-intensive force into a technology-intensive army. Continually seeking more urban conscripts and emphasizing higher education, the PLA Reserve Officer Training and Selection program recruited students from across the nation. These reservists would become commissioned officers upon graduation, and they majored in atomic physics, computer science, and electrical engineering. Grounding the text in previously unreleased official Chinese government and military records as well as the personal testimonies of more than two hundred PLA soldiers, Li charts the development of China's armed forces against the backdrop of Chinese society, cultural traditions, political history, and recent technological advancements. A History of the Modern Chinese Army links China's military modernization to the country's growing international and economic power and provides a unique perspective on China's esttablishment and maintenance of one of the world's most advanced military forces. |
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... PAVN in 1984 Top PLA leaders at an expanded CMC meeting Jiang Zemin, the third generation Hu Jintao, the new commander in chief Poster of a PLA soldier Abbreviations CCP CMAG CMC COSTIND Chinese Communist Party Chinese Military.
... leaders, party and government documents, and local archives, are now available to historians. Certainly, the Chinese government still has a long way to go before free academic inquiry becomes reality, but the value of the opening of ...
... leaders. With Mao as the undisputed leader in both theory and strategy throughout most of the PLA's history, the military leaders worked together and made most of the important decisions within the CMC. Their papers, fundamental for the ...
... leaders I also interviewed in Taiwan was Chief General Hao Bocun (Hau Pei-tsun, chief of the GMD General Staff 1981–89, ROC defense minister 1989–90, and prime minister 1990–93). Their personal accounts of the wars with the Communist ...
... leaders, such as Mao and Zhou—individuals who thought eclectically about social and military issues. As the first generation of Communist leaders, they had political and social concerns that were unprecedented among Chinese military leaders ...
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Transformation in Korea | |
Russianizing the | |
Building Missiles and the Bomb | |
Crises and Politics | |
Border Conflicts and the Cultural Revolution | |
Survivor and Reformer | |
Technocrats and the New Generation | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Index | |