1st Edition

Revival: The People's Liberation Army and China's Nation-Building (1973)

By Ying-Mao Kau Copyright 1973
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

This revised edition brings the problem of Third-World conflict into the post-Cold War era. It asks when and how should the developed countries intervene in internal wars outside of their traditional geopolitical interest - and what can such intervention realistically accomplish?

PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, I. THE MAOIST MODEL OF ARMY-BUILDING, II. THE POLITICAL WORK OF THE PLA, III. THE ECONOMIC ROLE OF THE MILITARY, IV. THE ARMY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGE, V. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE MILITIA, VI. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN TWO LINES, VII. THE MILITARY AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, VIII. THE REASSERTION OF THE MAOIST MODEL, BIBLIOGRAPHY

Biography

Ying-Mao Kau