Mao's army goes to sea : the island campaigns and the founding of China's navy / Toshi Yoshihara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoshihara, Toshi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History, Naval--20th century.

China.

China. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun. Hai jun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Georgetown University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This is a history of the creation of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and Mao Zedong's attempt to end the civil war with the conquest of key offshore islands. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet to complete the consolidation of power and pursue its rivalry with Nationalist China, Mao had to develop maritime capabilities. Drawing extensively from newly available Chinese-language sources, this study shows that the navy-building process, the sea battles, and the contested landings on offshore islands had a lasting influence. Even today, the PLAN's identity, strategy, doctrine, and force structure are conditioned by these early experiences and myths. By providing the definitive account of this little-known, yet critical, moment in China's naval history, this book overturns the conventional wisdom that the People's Republic of China was inattentive to naval affairs during the early years"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

An Overlooked History

The East China Navy

The People's Navy

The Xiamen, Jinmen, and Zhoushan Campaigns

The Hainan and Wanshan Campaigns

An Assessment of the PLA's Seaward Turn

Discerning Institutional Continuities

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Yoshihara, Toshi Mao's Army Goes to Sea

ISBN:

9781647122836

164712283X

OCLC:

1355693951