A border region ‘exuded with militant friendship’

Provincial narratives of China's participation in the First Indochina War, 1949–1954

Bibliographic Data

ID12695271
AuthorsCharles A Kraus (George Washington University, corresponding author), Charles Kraus (a Department of History , The George Washington University , Washington , DC , USA)
Year2011
Volume12
Issue3
Pages495-514
Publication date2011-11-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCold War History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-2745 • E-ISSN: 1743-7962
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14682745.2011.627919
OpenAlexW2070052808
LanguageEN
References cited19

China's aid to Vietnam during the First Indochina War was crucial to the Vit Minh's victory over France in 1954. While China's national leaders were deeply involved in the conflict, it was officials in southwest China who bore overall responsibility for supporting the Vit Minh from 1949 until 1954. Officials from Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, and Hainan Island delivered vast amounts of aid to Vietnam and established numerous schools and training programmes in China for Vietnamese soldiers and students. The amount of Chinese provincial aid to Vietnam suggests that China's contribution to the First Indochina War was far more extensive than previous scholarly inquiries have indicated and points to the overall need to reassess China's foreign relations during the Cold War within the context of border provinces and localities

Archaeology · Beijing · China · Context (archaeology · Friendship · Geography · Ho chi minh · Militant · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Victory · Vietnam War · Vietnamese · Chinese history and philosophy · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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