Seeking Truth from Facts: A Retrospective on Chinese Military Studies in the Post-Mao Era

by Mulvenon, James C.; Yang, Andrew N. D.

• ISBN13: 9780833029362
• ISBN10: 0833029363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Proceedings of a conference jointly sponsored by the RAND Center for Asia-Pacific Policy and the Taiwan-based Chinese Council for Advanced Policy Studies, which brought together many of the nation's top experts to assess the last 20 years of trends in Chinese civil-military relations, force structure, doctrine, and capabilities, as well as the state of the China military studies field. The resulting volume is a comprehensive retrospective of Western research on the People's Liberation Army in the last quarter of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Figure	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Acronyms	p. xix
A Retrospective on the Study of Chinese Civil-Military Relations since 1979: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go?	p. 1
Commentary on Civil-Military Relations in China: The Search for New Paradigms	p. 39
Pla Force Structure: a 20-Year Retrospective	p. 51
Compensating for Deficiencies: Doctrinal Evolution in the Chinese People's Liberation Army: 1978-1999	p. 87
Commentary on Doctrine	p. 119
Transformation and Refinement of Chinese Military Doctrine: Reflection and Critique on the Pla's View	p. 131
Chinese Military-Technical Development: The Record for Western Assessments, 1979-1999	p. 141
Comments on "China's Military-Technical Developments: The Record for Western Assessments, 1979-1999"	p. 173
Caps and the Study of the Pla: a Review Essay	p. 181
Eight Points for Attention	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 207
References	p. 213
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