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China's use of military force : = beyond the Great Wall and the long march /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	China's use of military force :/ Andrew Scobell.
Reminder of title:	beyond the Great Wall and the long march /
Author:	Scobell, Andrew,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	China -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510502
ISBN:	9780511510502 (ebook)

China's use of military force : = beyond the Great Wall and the long march /
Scobell, Andrew,

China's use of military force :beyond the Great Wall and the long march /Andrew Scobell. - 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge modern China series. - Cambridge modern China series..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction -- The Chinese cult of defense -- Bringing in the military -- Lips and teeth: China's decision to intervene in Korea -- Support the Left: PLA intervention in the Cultural Revolution -- A self-defense counterattack: China's 1979 war with Vietnam -- Why the People's Army fired on the people: Beijing, 1989 -- Show of force: the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait crisis -- Conclusion: explaining China's use of force.

In this 2003 study of China's militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995-6) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China's strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a 'Cult of Defense' in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this 'Cult of Defense' disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People's Liberation Army's doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China's twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.

ISBN: 9780511510502 (ebook)Subjects--Geographical Terms:

714969
China

LC Class. No.: UA835 / .S3797 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 355/.033051

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