China\'s Quest. The History of the Foreign Relations of the People\'s Republic of China - John Garver

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822 { Notes to pages 382–393



  1. Enver Hoxha, Reflections on China, Vol. 2, 1973–1977, Tirana, Albania: 8 Nentori,
    1979, p. 715.

  2. See Bob Avakian, From Ike to Mao and Beyond, Chicago: Insight Press, 2005, pp.
    351–72.


Chapter 14. China’s Pedagogic War with Vietnam


  1. On the 1979 war, see Harlan W.  Jenks, “China’s ‘Punitive’ War against
    Vietnam:  A  Military Assessment,” Asian Survey, vol. 15, no. 8 (August 1979), pp. 801–5.
    Gerald Segal, Defending China, New  York:  Oxford University Press, 1985. Xiaoming
    Zhang, “China’s 1979 War with Vietnam: A Reassessment,” China Quarterly, December
    2005, no. 184, pp. 851–74.

  2. Zhang, “China’s 1979 War,” p. 861.

  3. Zhang, “China’s 1979 War,” p. 866.

  4. Quoted in Zhang, “China’s 1979 War,” p. 868.

  5. For a similar lament by a Burmese general of the eighteenth century, see John Garver,
    Protracted Contest:  Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century, Seattle:  University of
    Washington Press, 2001, p. 246.

  6. Zhang, “China’s 1979 War,” p. 867.

  7. Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First, New York: Harper Collins, 2000, p. 596.

  8. Nayan Chanda, Brother Enemy: The War after the War, New York: Harcourt Brace
    Jovanovich, 1986, p. 261.

  9. Zhang, “China’s 1979 War.”

  10. Ezra Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Cambridge: Belknap
    Press, 2011, pp. 258–9. Deng also visited Malaysia, but was less frank there in explaining
    Chinese policies.

  11. It is interesting that Deng presided over the Paracel operation in 1974 shortly
    after his first rehabilitation and over the 1979 Vietnam War shortly after his second
    rehabilitation.

  12. Quoted in Chanda, Brother Enemy, pp. 321–2.

  13. Kiernan, How Pol Pot, pp. 320–55.

  14. R.  J. Rummel, Statistics of Democide:  Genocide and Mass Murder since 1900,
    Charlottesville, VA: Center for National Security Law, 1997, ch. 4, “Statistics of Cambodian
    Democide, Estimates, Calculations, and Sources.” Available online at https://www.
    hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP4.HTM.

  15. Chanda, Brother Enemy, p. 109.

  16. This discussion follows Chanda, Brother Enemy.

  17. Chanda, Brother Enemy, pp. 96–9.

  18. Chanda, Brother Enemy, pp. 35–6, 94–5.

  19. Chanda, Brother Enemy, pp. 196–7, 215, 218–9.

  20. Chanda, Brother Enemy, p. 216.

  21. Chanda, Brother Enemy, p. 255.

  22. Chanda, Brother Enemy, pp. 16–7.

  23. Chanda, Brother Enemy, pp. 17–8.

  24. Chanda, Brother Enemy, p. 93.

  25. Chanda, Brother Enemy, p. 201, also p. 434 n. 17.

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