The Chinese state at the borders / edited by Diana Lary.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lary, Diana.

Series:

Contemporary Chinese studies.

Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Government policy--China--History.

Minorities.

Regionalism--China--History.

Regionalism.

China--Territorial expansion--History.

China.

China--Boundaries--History.

China--Ethnic relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Maps; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Centre and the Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory; 2 Ming-Qing Border Defence, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century; 3 Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early Seventeenth Century; 4 What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border?; 5 Ming China and Its Border with Annam; 6 Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing Frontier Campaigns; 7 Tributary Relations and the Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu; 8 The Amur: As River, as Border

9 The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland10 A Zone of Nebulous Menace: The Guangxi/Indochina Border in the Republican Period; 11 Border Banishment: Rightists in the Army Farms of Beidahuang; 12 L'état, c'est nous, or We Have Met the Oppressor and He Is Us: The Predicament of Minority Cadres in the PRC; 13 Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Periphery in Contemporary China; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74137-3

9786612741371

0-7748-5574-6

OCLC:

243583771