Mao's Army Goes to Sea
The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy
$196.04
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2022
Summary
Mao’s Army Goes to Sea
From 1949 to 1950, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China’s periphery. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet in order to capture key offshore islands from the Nationalist rival, Mao Zedong needed to develop maritime capabilities. Mao’s Army Goes to Sea is a ground-breaking history of the founding of the Chinese navy and Communist China’s earliest island-seizing campaigns.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781647122812 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1647122813 |
| Author: | Toshi Yoshihara |
| Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
| Imprint: | Georgetown University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
The biggest drawback of the book is that at only 173 pages with notes, it leaves the reader wanting more…Ultimately, the value of Yoshihara’s work is that he has both uncovered the history and explained why it matters in an accessible volume.
* Natural History Magazine *About The Author
Toshi Yoshihara
Toshi Yoshihara is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He was previously the John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies at the US Naval War College and coauthored Red Star over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to US Maritime Strategy.
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