Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979

by Andrew Mertha

Book Overview

When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot's government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in a markedly asymmetrical relationship between a modernizing, nuclear power and a virtually premodern state, China was largely unable to use its power to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501731238
• ISBN13: 9781501731235
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher