The Chinese State at the Borders

Diana Lary editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Published:21st May '07

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The essays in this volume look at these issues over a long span of time, questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission.

The essays in this volume look at China's relationships with border peoples over a long span of time, questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission.In this ground-breaking study, Hsiao Ting Lin demonstrates that the Chinese frontier was the subject neither of concerted aggression on the part of a centralized and indoctrinated Chinese government nor of an ideologically driven nationalist ethnopolitics. Instead, nationalist sovereignty over Tibet and other border regions was the result of rhetorical grandstanding by Chiang Kai-shek and his regime. Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier makes a crucial contribution to the understanding of past and present China-Tibet relations. A counterpoint to erroneous historical assumptions, this book will change the way Tibetologists and modern Chinese historians frame future studies of the region.

By presenting new work, much of it by younger and Canadian scholars, this volume, complete with a comprehensive bibliography, offers access to a burgeoning literature on China’s borders from the Ming to the present. -- Valerie Hansen, Yale University * International History Review XXX, 3 *

ISBN: 9780774813334

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 580g

352 pages