China’s New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War

On Tuesday, April 16th, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Xiaobing Li, Professor of History and the Don Betz Endowed Chair in International Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma, for a book talk on China’s New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War.

Xiaobing Li is a Professor of History and the Don Betz Endowed Chair in International Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. He holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and is the author and editor of China’s New Navy (Naval Institute Press, 2023), US-China Relations: A New Cold War (Amsterdam U Press, 2022), The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War (Oxford U Press, 2020), East Asia and the West: An Entangled History (2020), Attack at Chosin: The Chinese Second Offensive Campaign in Korea (OU Press, 2020), Building Hu’s Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam (U Press of Kentucky, 2019), The History of Taiwan (ABC-CLIO, 2019), and The Cold War in East Asia (Routledge, 2018). He is also the executive editor of the Chinese Historical Review. He served in Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).