Chinese Military System
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Armed Departments
Author_Harvey W Nelsen
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CCP
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China's peacetime army
Chinese armed forces organizational analysis
Chinese bureaucratic politics
Chinese defense policy
Chinese military system
Chinese People's Liberation Army
civic-action army
civil-military relations China
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Field Grade Officers
Ground Based Air Defense System
Ground Forces
Guided Missile
Ho Chi Minh
Main Force Units
Mao era military reforms
MaoTse Tung
military bureaucracy China
Military Region Headquarters
Naval Forces
Nieh Jung Chen
People's Armed Forces Department
People’s Armed Forces Department
PLA Activist
PLA General Staff
PLA Leadership
PLA Modernization
PLA organizational structure
PLA Unit
Provincial Military Districts
regional military administration
Regional PLA
Revolutionary Committees
West Germany
World War III
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367306281
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 147 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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To understand the Chinese military, and thereby the dynamics of China’s peacetime army, one must understand its organizational system. To that end, Harvey Nelsen has written a book that examines in detail the entire organization of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Dr. Nelsen studies the PLA from top to bottom. Throughout, he challenges the widely held theory that military politics in China are largely determined by personal relations among officers and that the PLA is more a civic-action army than are most military organizations. Important as a purely military study, this book is valuable also for the light it sheds on the whole of Chinese bureaucratic politics. This second edition has been revised to reflect changes that have occurred since the death of Chairman Mao as well as to incorporate new information about the Chinese military and political system during Mao’s reign.
Harvey W. Nelsen is currently an associate professor in the International Studies Program at the University of South Florida. He holds a doctorate in modern Chinese history from George Washington University and has published numerous articles in the field of contemporary Chinese military affairs.
