Abstract
Introduction 1. Social Trends in China: Implications for the People's Liberation Army, Tony Saich 2. The Impact of Social Changes on the PLA: A Chinese Military Perspective, Xiaobing Li 3. The New Military Elite: Generational Profile and Contradictory Trends, Cheng Li 4. The Fourth-Generation Leaders and the New Military Elite, Yu Bin 5. The PLA and the Provinces: Military District and Local Issues, Zhiyue Bo 6. The Political Implications of PLA Professionalism, Lyman Miller 7. Unravelling the Myths about Political Commissars, You Ji 8. Searching for a Twenty-First Century Officer Corps, Thomas J. Bickford 9. Educating the Officer Corps: The Chinese People's Liberation Army and Its Interactions with Civilian Academic Institutions, Kristen Gunness 10. China's Defense Budget: Is There Impending Friction Between Defense and Civilian Needs? Joseph Fewsmith 11. The PLA in the New Economy: Plus Ca Change, Plus Ca Meme Chose, James Mulvenon 12. Conscription: From the Masses, Sijin Cheng 13. Demobilization and Resettlement: The Challenge of Downsizing the People's Liberation Army, Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise 14. People's War in the Twenty-First Century: The Militia and the Reserves, Dennis J. Blasko.
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