A border region 'exuded with militant friendship': Provincial narratives of China's participation in the First Indochina War, 1949-1954

China's aid to Vietnam during the First Indochina War was crucial to the Vi t 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 Vi t Minh from...

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Published in:	Cold war history 2012-08, Vol.12 (3), p.495-514
Main Author:	Kraus, Charles
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Borders China Cold War Conflict Foreign relations France Independence movements Indochina International relations Islands Military aid Military personnel Narratives Participation Peoples Republic of China Provinces Provincialism Resistance movements Schools Soldiers Training Vietnam Vietnam War War
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Summary:	China's aid to Vietnam during the First Indochina War was crucial to the Vi t 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 Vi t 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.
ISSN:	1468-2745 1743-7962