Tibet and nationalist China's frontier : intrigues and ethnopolitics, 1928-49 / Hsiao-ting Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Hsiao-ting, 1971-

Series:

Contemporary Chinese studies.

Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Relations--China.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

China--Foreign relations--1912-1949.

China.

China--Politics and government--1928-1937.

China--Politics and government--1937-1945.

China--Politics and government--1945-1949.

China--Relations--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2006.

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 is invaluable for an understanding of past and present China-Tibet relations. 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, Tables, Photographs""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue""; ""Part 1: The Setting""; ""1 A Localized Regime, National Image, and Territorial Fragmentation""; ""2 Professed Frontier Policy, Policy Planners, and Imagined Sovereignty""; ""Part 2: The Prewar Decade, 1928-37""; ""3 The Unquiet Southwestern Borderlands""; ""4 The Mission to Tibet""; ""5 Commissioner Politics""; ""Part 3: The Wartime Period, 1938-45""; ""6 Building a Nationalist-Controlled State in Southwest China""; ""7 The Issue of the China-India Roadway via Tibet""

""8 Rhetoric, Reality, and Wartime China's Tibetan Concerns""""Part 4: The Postwar Period, 1945-49""; ""9 Postwar Frontier Planning vis-a-vis non-Han Separatist Movements""; ""10 The Sera Monastery Incident""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary of Names and Terms""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""

""T""""U""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-269) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74123-3

9786612741234

0-7748-5528-2

OCLC:

923444530