Soldiers of Fortune · the Rise and Fall of the Chinese Military-Business Complex, 1978-1998 · the Rise and Fall of the Chinese Military-Business Complex, 1978-1998
- Authors
- Mulvenon, James C.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Tags
- politics
- ISBN
- 9780765605795
- Date
- 2000-04-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.61 MB
- Lang
- en
In 1978, faced with the pressure to modernize and a declining budget, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) reluctantly agreed to join China's economic reform drive, expanding its internal economy to market-oriented civilian production. This work examines PLA's role in the economy up to 1998.