Deng Xiaoping's Long War
The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991
By Xiaoming Zhang
296 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 16 halftones, 5 maps, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4234-5
Published: February 2018 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2125-8
Published: May 2015 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4362-3
Published: May 2015
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A 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
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Xiaoming Zhang is professor of strategy and history at the Air War College.
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"[A] skillful study. . . . Reminds readers of the reasons why fundamental distrust persists on both sides."--Foreign Affairs
“A useful synthesis . . . of the current state of knowledge on this subject.”--Journal of Chinese Military History
“[A] superb example of history writing at its best . . . [and] one of the best explanations of China’s current strategic approach to military action. Essential.”--Choice
“Valuable not only for its detailed description and assessment of the 1979 conflict, but importantly also because of its account of actions after the main hostilities.”--Asian Affairs
"The definitive work on the subject...Well-researched and clearly-written study fills a gap in our knowledge about China’s preparation and execution of the Third Indochina War."---H-Diplo
“Explores the Sino-Vietnamese military conflict that ran from 1979 to 1991. . . . Draw[s] from an impressive range of Chinese sources for this work.”--Canadian Journal of History