1st Edition

Technology, Defense, And External Relations In China, 19751978

By Harry G. Gelber Copyright 1980
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

This volume surveys efforts by China's post-Mao leadership to adopt modern technology in China's industrial and economic sectors while focusing new attention on an increasingly obsolescent defense structure. The author presents these efforts against the background of the external political and military environment to which the PRC must react. He outlines the foreign policy and strategic problems... Read more
Preface -- Political Change and Foreign Policy -- Defense -- The Economy -- Technology -- Conclusions

Biography

Harry G. Gelber is professor and head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. He has taught at Monash, Harvard, and Yale Universities and at Nuffield College, Oxford. He conducted the research for this book as a visiting fellow at the Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina.