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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797357603321

Autore

Zhang Xiaoming <1951->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

979-88-908436-3-0

1-4696-2339-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 pages)

Collana

The New Cold War History

Disciplina

959.704/4

Soggetti

Sino-Vietnamese Conflict, 1979

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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's desire to modernize his country.