Deng Xiaoping's Long War The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991 /
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots of the conflict to the historic relationship between the peoples of China and Vietnam, the ongoing Sino-Soviet dispute, and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping&...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
2015.
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| Series: | New Cold War history.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469621258_zhang |
Table of Contents:
- The roots of the Sino-Vietnamese conflict
- Deng Xiaoping and China's war decision
- Planning and preparation for the invasion
- Bloodshed over Vietnam's Northern Border Region
- Reassessing the 1979 War
- A decade long continued border conflict, 1980-1990
- Under the shadow of the border conflict
- The road to conflict termination
- Conclusion: a personal retrospective on China's border war, rapprochement with Vietnam, and implications for East Asian affairs.