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ENDNOTES - CHAPTER 4
1. This chapter follows in a long tradition of articles assessing
the changes that have occurred in China’s civil-military relations
following the reform and opening movement of the 1980s. Ellis
Joffe “The Military and China’s New Politics: Trends and Counter-Trends,”
in James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N.D. Yang, eds.,
The People’s Liberation Army in the Information Age, Santa Monica,
CA: The RAND Corporation, 1999, serves as one key work that set
the stage for the next decade’s analyses. In addition, David Shambaugh’s
work, particularly his chapter titled, “Civil-Military Relations”
in his book, Modernizing China’s Military: Progress, Problems,
and Prospects, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, March
2003, pp.11-55, provides a thorough overview of the symbiotic relationship
that has traditionally occurred in China’s civil-military
relations. For an overview of the manner in which this topic has
traditionally been studied, Thomas J. Bickford’s “A Retrospective
on the Study of Chinese Civil-Military Relations Since 1979:
What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go?” in James C. Mulvenon
and Andrew N. D. Yang, eds., Seeking Truth from Facts: A
Retrospective on Chinese Military Studies in the Post-Mao Era, Santa
Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001, pp. 1-38, provides a detailed
background, and, two more recent edited volumes, Chinese
Civil-Military Relations: The Transformation of the People’s Liberation
Army, Nan Li, ed., Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2006; and Civil-
Military Relations in Today’s China: Swimming in a New Sea, David
Finklestein and Kristen Gunness, eds., Alexandria, VA: The CNA
Corporation, 2007, provide sizeable contributions to this field.
2. You Ji, “Hu Jintao’s Succession and Power Consolidation
Strategy,” John Wong and Lai Hongyi, eds., China’s Political and
Social Change in Hu Jintao Era, Singapore: World Scientific, 2006,
pp. 33-60.
3. Li Nan, “Changing Functions of the Party and Political
Work System in the PLA and Civil-Military Relations in China,”
Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 19, 1993.
4. Here the debating point is whether the CMC is basically a
Party body or a top military command. This chapter argues that
the latter is closer to the reality.
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