China

Articles/Periodical/Website

– Biddle, Steven., Oelrich, Ivan. Future Warfare in the Western Pacific: Chinese Antiaccess/Area Denial, U.S. AirSea Battle, and Command of the Commons in East Asia

Bishop, Bill. Sinocism https://sinocism.com

– Blackwill, Robert D. Implementing Grand Strategy Toward China: Twenty-Two U.S. Policy Prescriptions

– Brown, Kerry. The Communist Party of China and Ideology https://muse.jhu.edu/article/482924/pdf

– Cavanna, Thomas P. Unlocking the Gates of Eurasia: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Implications for U.S. Grand Strategy         https://tnsr.org/2019/07/unlocking-the-gates-of-eurasia-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-and-its-implications-for-u-s-grand-strategy/

China Heritage http://chinaheritage.net/journal/about-china-heritage-net/

– Cordesman, Anthony H. China’s New 2019 Defense White Paper: An Open Strategic Challenge to the United States, But One which Does Not Have to Lead to Conflict https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-new-2019-defense-white-paper

– Eberstadt, Nicholas. China’s Demographic Outlook to 2040 and Its Implications: An Overview https://globalcoalitiononaging.com/wp-   content/uploads/2019/01/China%E2%80%99s-Demographic-Outlook.pdf.

– Garnaut, John. Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China  https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in

– Glaser, Bonnie S. The Deteriorating US-China Relationship and the Indo-Pacific https://www.iiss.org/-/media/files/publications/rsa-2020/rsa20-chapter-1—the-deteriorating-us-china-relationship-and-the-indo-pacific.pdf

– Goldstein, Lyle J., Kozyrev, Vitaly. China-Russia Military Cooperation and the Emergent U.S.-China Rivalry: Implications and Recommendations for U.S. National Security

– Halper, Stefan. China: The Three Warfares https://cryptome.org/2014/06/prc-three-wars.pdf

– International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Military Balance 2020

– Lawrence, Susan V. China’s Foreign Ministry Statements Signal Heightened Concern About U.S. Actions in the 116th Congress https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/IF11624.pdf

  • Leide, Jack MG. Professional Courage

– Mahbubani, Kishore. Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy https://ia803205.us.archive.org/28/items/has-china-won-by-kishore-mahbubani-z-lib.org.epub/Has%20China%20Won%20by%20Kishore%20Mahbubani%20%28z-lib.org%29.epub.pdf

– McReynolds, Joe. China’s Evolving Military Strategy

– O’Rourke, Ronald. China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities – Background and Issues for Congress https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33153.pdf.

– Ownby, David. Reading the China Dream https://www.readingthechinadream.com

– Pillsbury, Michael. The Sixteen Fears: China’s Strategic Psychology

– Smith, Julie., Kendal-Taylor, Andrea., Mietsche, Carisa., Laskowski, Ellison. Charting a Transatlantic Course to Address China https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/files.cnas.org/documents/CNAS-Report-Transatlantic-August- 2020-final.pdf?mtime=20201019111640&focal=none.

SupChina https://supchina.com

– Tobin, Daniel. How Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ Should Have Ended U.S. Debate on Beijing’s Ambitions https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-xi-jinpings-new-era-should-have-ended-us-debate-beijings-ambitions;   https://www.uscc.gov/hearings/china-model-beijings-promotion-alternative-global-norms-and-standards

– Wuthnow, Joel., Saunders, Philip C. Chinese Military Reforms in the Age of Xi Jinping: Drivers, Challenges, and Implications

– Joel Wuthnow et. al, The PLA Beyond Borders: Chinese Military Operations in Regional and Global Context, NDU, 2019 https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/Books/beyond-borders/990-059-NDU-PLA_Beyond_Borders_sp_jm14.pdf

– Roger Cliff, Roy Kamphausen et.al., Enabling a More Externally Focused and Operational PLA – 2020 PLA Conference Papers (Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army War College Press, 2022), https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/951

– Roy Kamphausen, The People of the PLA 2.0 (US Army War College Press, 2021), https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/944

Official Government Publications 

– Office of the Secretary of Defense. (Annual Report on the Military Power of the People’s Republic of China)

– People’s Republic of China (PRC) white papers on national defense

– Brady, Anne-Marie. Magic Weapons: China’s Political Influence Activities Under Xi Jinping https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/article/magic_weapons.pdf

– Diamond, Larry., Schell, Orville. Chinese Influence and American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance  https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/chineseinfluence_americaninterests_fullreport_web.pdf

– Fravel, M Taylor. China’s “World-Class Military” Ambitions: Origins and    Implications (The Washington Quarterly 43)

 – Defense Intelligence Agency. China Military Power: Modernizing a Force to  Fight and Win http://www.dia.mil/Military-Power-Publications

– Scobell, Andrew. China’s Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories, and Long-Term Competition https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2798.html

Books 

– Blasko, Dennis. The Chinese Army Today 

– Fairbank, John K., Edwin Reischauer, and Albert Craig. East Asia: Tradition and Transformation 

– Mann, James. About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton 

– Segal, Gerald. Defending China 

– Shambaugh, David. Modernizing China’s Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects 

– Shambaugh, David. Tangled Titans: The United States and China

– Tuchman, Barbara W. Stillwell and the American Experience in China.

– Zedong, Mao. Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung 

– Allison, Graham. Destined for War

– Andrade, Tonio. Gunpowder Age

– Balzacq, Thierry., Dombrowski, Peter., Reich, Simon. Comparative Grand Strategy: A Framework and Cases

– Blanchette, Jude D. China’s New Red Guards

– Bradley, James. China Mirage

– Brady, Anne-Marie. Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People’s Republic; Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China

– Brautigam, Deborah. The Dragons Gift

– Brose, Christian. The Kill Chain

– Chen, Guidi., Wu, Chuntao. Will the Boat Sink the Water?

– Cheung, Tai M. Fortifying China

– Christensen, Thomas J. The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

– Dikötter, Frank. The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976; People’s Trilogy; The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957; Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62; How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

– Easton, Ian. The Taiwan Invasion Threat

– Edney, Kingsley. The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda: International Power and Domestic Political Cohesion

– Elleman, Bruce., Paine, S.C.M. Modern China: Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present

– Ellings, Richard J., Sutter, Robert. Axis of Authoritarians: Implications of China- Russia Cooperation

– Feigenbaum, Evan. China’s Techno-Warriors

– Fravel, Taylor. Fire on the Water; The Chinese Army Today; Xi Jinping remakes the PLA

– Friedberg, William J. Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control

– Hamilton, Clive., Ohlberg Mareike. Hidden Hand: How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World

– Johnston, Alastair I., Ross, Robert S. New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy

– Kashmeri, Sarwar A. China’s Grand Strategy: Weaving a New Silk Road to Global Primacy

– Kerr, George. Formosa Betrayed

– Koss, Daniel. Where the Party Rules

– Lam, Willy W. The Fight for China’s Future: Civil Society vs. the Chinese Communist Party

– Lee, Kai-Fiu. AI Superpowers

– Leys, Simon. Chinese Shadows

– Li, Cheng. Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era

– Li, Xiaobing. Building Ho’s Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam; China’s War in Korea: Strategic Culture and Geopolitics; The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam

– Liu, Xin. China’s Cultural Diplomacy: A Great Leap Outward?

– Lohmeier, Matthew. Irresistible Revolution

– McGregor, Richard. The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers

– Meyer, Michael. In Manchuria

– Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally (Taiwan)

– Mosher, Steven W. The Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is The New Threat To World Order

– Mühlhahn, Klaus. Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping

– Mulvenon, James C., Yang, Andrew N. D. PLA as Organization 2.0

– Naughton, Berry J. The Chinese Economy: Adaption and Growth

– Patey, Luke. How China Loses

– Pillsbury, Michael. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

– Pomfret, John. Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom

– Rudolph, Jennifer. The China Questions

– Schell, Orville. Wealth and Power

– Schram, Stuart R. Mao’s Road to Power; The Political Thought of Mao Tse-Tung

– Schuman, Michael. Superpower Interrupted

– Shakya, Tsering. Dragon in the Land of the Snows

– Shirk, Susan. Fragile Superpower

– Short, Philip. Mao: A Life

– Smith, Jeff M. Cold Peace: China-India Rivalry in the Twenty-First Century

– Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China

– Srittmatter, Kai. We Have Been Harmonized

– Tuchman, Barbara. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45

– Tucker, Nacny. Dangerous Straits; Strait Talk

– Walder, Andrew G. China Under Mao

– White, Hugh. The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power

– Wood, Michael. The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream

– You, Ji. China’s Military Transformation

 

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