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From Muskets to Missiles: Politics and Professionalism in the Chinese Army, 1945-1981

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* The Chinese Military System: An Organizational Study of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Second Edition, revised and updated, Harvey W. Nelsen

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China's Quest for Independence: Policy Evolution in the 1970s, edited by Thomas Fingar and the Stanford Journal of International Studies

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Perspectives on a Changing China: Essays in Honor of Professor C. Martin Wilbur, edited by Joshua A. Fogel and William T. Rowe

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Westview Special Studies on China and East Asia

From Muskets to Missiles: Politics and Professionalism in the Chinese Army, 1945-1981

Harlan W. Jencks

This book provides a detailed description and evaluation of the military, political, economic, and social context within which PLA officers have functioned since the civil war (1945-1949). Its aim is to evaluate the personal commitments and professional implications of a military career in the People's Republic of China. Focusing on the crucial factors of military function and technology, Dr. Jencks describes and analyzes the various post-1949 crises in the high command; his emphasis is on the import of these events for the officer corps rather than on the details of the events themselves. A wealth of information on the force structure, equipment, and military capability of the PLA provides an up-to-date assessment of Chinese military power. At the same time, the information depicts the life and work of Chinese soldiers and is central to the "biography" of the post-1945 generations of PLA officers.

Dr. Jencks is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve and a consulting faculty member of the U.S. Army School of International Studies at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Published in Cooperation with

THE CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720

The Center for Chinese Studies, supported by the Ford Foundation, the Institute of East Asian Studies (University of California, Berkeley), and the State of California, is the unifying organization for social science and interdisciplinary research on contemporary China.

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From Muskets to Missiles: Politics and Professionalism in the Chinese Army, 1945-1981

Harlan W. Jencks

First published 1982 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published 2018 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-19863

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01906-8 (hbk)

In Memoriam
Captain George Patrick O'Toole United. States Army

Contents

by Harvey Nelson

1. ii
2. iii
3. iv
4. xxv

Guide

1. Tables
2. Figures

Next to the party, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the most important institution in China. Western scholarship achieved a working knowledge of the party-government system prior to the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, while studies on the military lagged far behind. This was due to three factors: First, socio-political analysis of armed forces was a relatively new field with important conceptual breakthroughs being made by Samuel Huntington and Morris Janowitz in the late 1950s and early 1960s; secondly, China's security consciousness rendered secret even routine information on the military; and finally, the elite status of the PLA resulted in almost no refugees in Hong Kong with military backgrounds. A handful of North American and British scholars wrote histories and monographs on the PLA, gradually moving the field forward. These are surveyed by Harlan Jencks in his preface. The Cultural Revolution breached China's security wall around its military, offering the possibility of more rigorous political analysis. In the years since Mao's death in 1976, the media of the People's Republic have become much more open in discussing the topic.

By taking full advantage of the data and of earlier studies, Jeneks has brought our understanding of the PLA up to par with our knowledge of Chinese civilian politics and history. He also provides a dimension which has been heretofore lackingan in-depth knowledge of the armed forces of the USSR. All too commonly, China scholars (including this one) have treated the PLA as sui generis. However, in the 1950s, it was totally reorganized on the Soviet model, and while great changes have since taken place, elements of that influence persist. Finally, Jencks' own years in the US Army certainly add to his understanding of force building and military capabilities issues, though at some risk of parochialism regarding the feasibility of radically different management systems.

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