David Shambaugh, Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, Prospects ( Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002).
2.
See, for example, James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N. D. Yang, eds., The People's Liberation Army as Organization: Reference Volume v1.0 (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002); Roy Kamphausen and Andrew Scobell, eds., Right-sizing the People's Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China's Military (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, September 2007); and Mark A. Ryan, David M. Finkelstein, and Michael A. McDevitt, eds., Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience Since 1949 (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003).
3.
Cheng Hsiao-shih, Party-Military Relations in the PRC and Taiwan: The Paradoxes of Control (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1990).