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

    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