China's policies on its borderlands and the international implications / [edited by] Yufan Hao, Bill K.P. Chou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hao, Yufan.

Chou, Bill K. P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

China--Foreign relations--Congresses.

China.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific, [2011]

Summary:

This book examines the interplay of two sets of policies: the Chinese government's policies to its borderlands and international relations. It proposes a conceptual framework and argues that China's policymakers fail to make complete use of the opportunities in the borderlands for accomplishing foreign policymakers' agenda to strengthen China's relations with other countries, neighbouring ones in particular. As a result, these foreign policies reflect the political elites' inadequate consideration of the negative impact of these policies on the borderlands, and underscore their worry for territorial disintegration. Therefore, these policies center on the pursuit of central control through exercising administrative-military coercion, making the borderlands economically dependent, standardising the cultural identity, and indoctrinating CCP-defined ideology. The challenges of the borderlands to the national integration are exaggerated so much that political elites pursued control and standardisation at the expense of the identification of many people in borderlands with the regime, China's international image and the relations with its neighbouring countries. Book jacket.

Notes:

"... University of Macau funding the conference, 'China's policies towards its borderlands and their international implications,' held on 11-12 March, 2010"--P. v.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814287661

9814287660

OCLC:

497573607