The Chinese Military System: An Organizational Study of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. 2nd rev. ed. By Harvey W. Nelsen. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press (Westview Special Studies on China and East Asia), 1981. 238 pp. $32.

1982 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-142
Author(s):  
Rhoda Weidenbaum
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
Organizational Study ◽  
Special Studies

Political indoctrination in the Chinese military: Towards a post-revolutionary People’s Liberation Army

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Juliette Genevaz
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The Political ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
Party Control ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
Ideological Change ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

This article examines the role played by the political indoctrination of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) during China’s socio-economic reforms of 1987–2007. This period was a time of political transition during which the Chinese Communist Party transformed its ideology from a focus on revolution to a self-proclaimed unrivalled single-party regime. This article looks at how the party conveyed this ideological change to the armed forces. One of the four PLA general headquarters/departments, the PLA General Political Department (中国人民解放军总政治部), was responsible for the indoctrination of servicemen and -women. Examining the work of this agency over the 20 years following its major ideological effort in 1987, this article challenges the dominant literature according to which political indoctrination hinders military professionalization. The crux of this argument is that the General Political Department’s purpose behind indoctrination of the armed forces was not only to assert party control but also to build esprit de corps. Based on a series of previously untapped periodicals published by the General Political Department, this analysis contributes to understanding processes of authoritarian resilience in the contemporary Chinese state.

scholarly journals Harnessed Lightning: How the Chinese Military is Adopting Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Fedasiuk ◽  
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Jennifer Melot ◽  
Ben Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
Export Control ◽  
Control Policies ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Chinese Military

This report examines nearly 350 artificial intelligence-related equipment contracts awarded by the People’s Liberation Army and state-owned defense enterprises in 2020 to assess how the Chinese military is adopting AI. The report identifies China’s key AI defense industry suppliers, highlights gaps in U.S. export control policies, and contextualizes the PLA’s AI investments within China’s broader strategy to compete militarily with the United States.

Chinese Approaches to Strategy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lorge
Keyword(s):  
Military History ◽  
The West ◽  
Complete Collection ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
The Way

Although discussions of war and military history were contained in many Chinese works, a number of books and essays focused solely and exclusively on discussing the way war worked, how armies functioned, how to fight in groups and individually, and how to think strategically. The tradition of writing about war was far more extensive in the Chinese tradition than in the West, with one modern collection, The Complete Collection of Chinese Military Books published by the People’s Liberation Army running to fifty volumes. Of those fifty volumes, many containing multiple works, less than a half-dozen texts have been translated into any modern language, including Chinese.

scholarly journals Military Modernization and Peaceful Rising: A Harmonious Transition of the PLA into the Future

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaobing Li
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Military Cooperation ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
Military Modernization ◽  
The Future ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Chinese Military

This article seeks to elucidate the recent changes to the Chinese military by examining the new characteristics of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and its newly adopted approaches for modernization between 2003 and 2008. It includes diachronic discussions to explore various social and political factors for the changes, domestic and international constraints on the implementation of military modernization, and the outcomes of these endeavors. The main findings indicate that the Chinese military has changed its main feature as two important transitions have emerged: first, the PLA has been transformed from a manpower intensive army to a technology oriented force; and second, from a national security army to an internationally operated force. Consequently, the high command begins to consider the PLA as a part of the global military cooperation.

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