From Library Journal
The 1979 China-Vietnam War had important consequences for Southeast Asia but has received little attention in the West. Using a variety of official sources from the governments of the United States, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the UN, as well as a host of books and scholarly journals, Hood (politics, Ursinus Coll.) has put together an account that seeks, as he writes in the introduction, "to be easily understood by the informed nonspecialist, and yet enlighten the Asian scholar or specialist in conflict studies seeking greater understanding of this ongoing power struggle." The book does exactly that, in a most effective manner. Other works on the subject, such as Chen King's China's War with Vietnam (Hoover Inst. Pr., 1987), deal with specialized aspects of the conflict in more detail but do not provide the interdisciplinary view of Dragons Entangled . An excellent selection for academic and larger public libraries.
- Jim Cunningham, Northern Illinois Univ. Lib., DeKalb
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Jim Cunningham, Northern Illinois Univ. Lib., DeKalb
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
