Brushes aside the specter of China as a threat, recently revived from the mid-1960s and 1970s, to analyze what the country's rise has meant so far and is likely to mean for her military forces. Considers such dimensions as China's security policies and strategic doctrine, the military's political and economic roles, military spending, civil-military relations, armaments and arms control, and the army as entrepreneur. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.