TY  - BOOK
AU  - Li, Xiaobing
AU  - Li, Xiaobing
TI  - A History of the Modern Chinese Army
SN  - 9789380502373
U1  - 355.0095 LI 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  -  : University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Social Science
KW  -  Public administration & military science
KW  -  Military science
KW  - China. -- Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun. -- History
KW  - China -- Armed Forces -- History
KW  - History -- Military -- Pictorial
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Chania
N2  - 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
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