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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. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zhang, Xiaoming, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:New Cold War history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.