Deng Xiaoping's long war : the military conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zhang, Xiaoming, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:New Cold War history.
Subjects:
Deng, Xiaoping, > 1904-1997 > Military leadership.
Deng, Xiaoping, > 1904-1997
1979
Sino-Vietnamese Conflict, 1979.
Conflit sino-vietnamien, 1979.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Command of troops
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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