Chinese Army

Two modern armies have been known in English as the Chinese Army:

  • People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China
  • Republic of China Army (on Taiwan), which succeeded the National Revolutionary Army in 1947

For Chinese armies before 1912, see:

  • Military history of China (pre-1911)

Famous quotes containing the word army:

    “This fantastic state of mind, of a humanity that has outrun its ideas, is matched by a political scene in the grotesque style, with Salvation Army methods, hallelujahs and bell-ringing and dervishlike repetition of monotonous catchwords, until everybody foams at the mouth. Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstacy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)