The Chinese Army after the Cultural Revolution: the Effects of Intervention
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly
- Vol. 55, 450-477
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000009127
Abstract
Whatever may have been the objectives of the principal participants in the Cultural Revolution, there can be little doubt that they did not include what turned out to be, at least in the short term, the most striking and significant outcome of the upheaval: the rise of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to a pivotal position in China's power structure. Compelled to intervene in the political process when the disruptive effects of the struggle reached dangerous dimensions, the army gradually ascended to the commanding heights of political power in the provinces, and acquired a substantial voice in the policy-making councils of Peking. When the Ninth Congress of the Party finally met in April 1969 to write the epilogue to the Cultural Revolution, it was the PLA rather than the Party that held most of the key positions of power in China.Keywords
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