Chinese Perspective on the Vietnam War

From: bernard kalb

Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:18 PM

dear vsg list:

wld much appreciate best sourcing on chinese military presence in north vietnam during the war: when, where, numbers, activities, etc. many tks.

bernard kalb

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From: william turley

Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM

Chen Jian, "China's Involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-69," The China Quarterly, no. 142 (June 1995).

Qiang Zhai, China & the Vietnam Wars, 1954-1975 (Chapell Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).

Also see Chen Jian, “China and the First Indo–China War, 1950–54,” The China Quarterly,

no. 112 (March 1993); and Qiang Zhai, “Transplanting the Chinese Model: Chinese Military Advisers and the First Vietnam War, 1950–54,” The Journal of Military History 57, no. 4 (October 1993): 689–715.

Bill Turley

William S. Turley

Dept. of Political Science

Southern Illinois University

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From: Tuan Hoang

Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:19 PM

The 1990s was a boom decade of research on China and the war. Check out also Xiaoming Zhang, “The Vietnam War, 1964-1969: A Chinese Perspective,” Journal of Military History (October 1996). It isn't as analytical as Chen Jian’s article on the same period, but has more stats and numbers.

~Tuan Hoang