Deng Xiaoping's long war : the military conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991 /
Xiaoming Zhang.
- Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages)
- The new Cold War history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The roots of the Sino-Vietnamese conflict -- Deng Xiaoping and China's war decision -- Planning and preparation for the invasion -- Bloodshed over Vietnam's Northern Border Region -- Reassessing the 1979 War -- A decade long continued border conflict, 1980-1990 -- Under the shadow of the border conflict -- The road to conflict termination -- Conclusion: a personal retrospective on China's border war, rapprochement with Vietnam, and implications for East Asian affairs.