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Building Ho's army : Chinese military assistance to North Vietnam / Xiaobing Li.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Xiaobing, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Kentucky scholarship online.
- Kentucky scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military assistance, Chinese--Vietnam (Democratic Republic).
- Military assistance, Chinese.
- Vietnam (Democratic Republic)--Military relations--China.
- Vietnam (Democratic Republic).
- China--Military relations--Vietnam (Democratic Republic).
- China.
- Vietnam (Democratic Republic)--History, Military.
- Vietnam. Quân đội nhân dân--History.
- Vietnam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2020.
- Summary:
- Built upon a solid foundation of sources, memoirs, and interviews, this study sheds new light on China's efforts in the Vietnam War. Utilising secondary works in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Western languages, and the author's own familiarity as a former member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, this examination expands the knowledge of China's relations with the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) during the 1950s and 1960s. As a communist state bordering Vietnam, China actively facilitated the transformation of Ho Chi Minh's army from a small, loosely organised, poorly equipped guerrilla force in the 1940s into a formidable, well-trained professional army capable of defeating first the French (1946-1954) and then the Americans (1963-1973).
- Contents:
- Introduction: Vietnamese request and Chinese intention
- Ho's China connection
- Advisors and aid
- Infantry rearmament, training, and operations
- Control and campaigns
- New standards, strategy, and artillery
- Dien Bien Phu: the taste of victory
- Postwar transformation and new geopolitics
- Conclusion: conflict and cooperation: friend or foe?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2019).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-7795-2
- 0-8131-7796-0
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