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  <titleInfo>
    <title>A History of the Modern Chinese Army</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Li, Xiaobing</namePart>
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    <namePart>Li, Xiaobing</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New Delhi</placeTerm>
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    <publisher> : University Press of Kentucky</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>xvi, 413 pages  : illustrations, maps 23cm. </extent>
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  <abstract>Xiaobing Li's comprehensive examination of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) offers new insights into the military's central place in modern Chinese society. A History of the Modern Chinese Army goes beyond the usual Western assessments of the Chinese military 'threat' and also expands on the politically constricted scholarship of native Chinese military historians. Li offers a sweeping yet thorough study of modern Chinese armed forces in the context of the nation's cultural traditions, its Communist revolution, and recent technological innovations that have radically transformed all aspec.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">/ Xiaobing Li</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Social Science</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic> Public administration &amp; military science</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic> Military science</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>China. -- Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun. -- History</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>China -- Armed Forces -- History</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>History -- Military -- Pictorial</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Armed Forces</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">355.0095 LI</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9789380502373</identifier>
  <identifier type="">:International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi</identifier>
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