Yugoslavia and China : Histories, Legacies, Afterlives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vangeli, Anastas.

Contributor:

Pavlićević, Dragan.

Series:

Southeast European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yugoslavia--Relations--China.

Yugoslavia.

China--Relations--Yugoslavia.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the historical relationship between Yugoslavia and China, examining its features, significance, and reverberations today. Studying a wide array of state-to-state and society-to-society connections and interactions, it provides novel perspectives on Yugoslavia's and China's intertwined trajectories and relations.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement Page

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Note from the Editors

Note on Transliteration

Timeline

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Re-thinking Yugo-Chinese Relations Past and Present

Bringing the Past Back In

Histories, Legacies, Afterlives

Outline of the Volume

Notes

Bibliography

Part I: Context

Chapter 1: Sino-Yugoslav Relations and the Global Cold War

1950s and 1960s: Decades of Ideological Confrontation

Early 1970s: Raised Hopes

Late 1970s: New Opportunities

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Nansilafu in the Chinese World-building

Dynamics of China's World-building

Pre-1977 Period: Nansilafu as a Liminal Space in Chinese World-Building

1976-1979: The Maieutic Role of Nansilafu

Post-1980 Developments: De-Historicising the Cold War Legacy through Nansilafu

Part II: Evolution of Relations

Chapter 3: Key Junctures in Sino-Yugoslav Relations: 1948, 1958, and 1968

1948: Tito's Shadow over Mao1

1958: Aligning with Mao Against Tito7

1968: Coexistence Saves the Day

Chapter 4: Yugoslavia and China's Early Reform Period (1977-1980)

A "Model to Follow"?

Learning from Yugoslavia and Its Reforms: Precedents and (Dis)continuities

New Horizons: Prelude to Reform

1978-1980: Yugoslavia and the Initial Round of Reforms

Yugoslavia and the International Dimension of China's Reform

Comparative Socialisms and Critical Assessment of Yugoslavia

Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 5: Self-Determination, Centralisation, and Sovereignty: What The Communist Party of China Learned from Yugoslavia's Dissolution.

China, Yugoslavia, and the Post-Empire Dilemma

"Ubiquitous Centre" versus "Asymmetric Federalism": Managing Ethnic Diversity in Socialist China and Yugoslavia

Self-management and Self-determination: Post-Maoist Experiments and the Yugoslav Model

Trauma of Dissolution: The CPC and the Balkan Nightmare

Concluding Remarks

References

Chapter 6: The Legacy of China-Yugoslavia Relations and Its Impact on China's Ties with Successor States

The Complex Changes during the Yugoslav Period

After SFRY: New Beginnings under New Circumstances

China and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia

Budapest and Bucharest Principles

Political and Economic Legacies

The Impact of the Legacy of Sino-Yugoslav Relations on Current Bilateral Relations

Relations with Serbia, Characterised by Political Mutual Trust

Pursuing Pragmatic Cooperation with Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and North Macedonia

Montenegro

Bosnia and Herzegovina

North Macedonia

Croatia

The Dual Relationship of Cooperation and Competition with Slovenia

Part III: Socio-Cultural Encounters

Chapter 7: Through Mistrust, Resistance, and "Spring Tide": A Brief History of Sino-Yugoslav Cultural Cooperation in the 1950s

Through the "Spring Tide": Successes of Sino-Yugoslav Cultural Cooperation

Behind the "Spring Tide": Socialist Identity, Different Expectations, and Resistance

Declining Political Relations: Cessation of Cultural Cooperation

Chapter 8: Local-level Sino-Yugoslav Exchanges from 1977 to 1985: Insights from Shanghai's Municipal Archives

Internal Reports on Sino-Yugoslav Exchanges

Warm Sino-Yugoslav Friendship

1977-1981: Chinese Interest in Everything Yugoslav

China's Fascination with Yugoslavia.

Drawing Lessons from Yugoslav Comrades

Attitudes of the Yugoslavs: To Be or Not to Be (Teachers)

Chinese Reflection of Yugoslavia's Lessons

1981-1985: Fading of Chinese Interest

Chapter 9: Sino-Yugoslav Friendship and Contemporary Chinese Tourism: Perspectives from Online Chinese Travelogues and Local Tourism Operators

Contextualising the Contemporary Chinese Tourist at Home and Abroad

Chinese Outbound Tourism

Red Tourism Project at Home and Abroad

Tourism and Sino-Serbian Friendships

Walter Defends Sarajevo: Touring Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia's Struggle with the Past

Note

Part IV: Legacy Ventures

Chapter 10: Narratives of the Sino-Yugoslav Past in Discourses on the Contemporary Sino-Serbian "Ironclad Friendship": The Rise of Sino-Yugo-nostalgia

Building on the Yugoslav Heritage

(Un)broken Continuity

New Era(s)

Between the Lines

Sino-Yugo-nostalgia

Chapter 11: Never Too Late? Bor's Transformation and the Quest for Sustainability of Sino-Serbian "Copper Friendship"

Significance of RTB Bor and Sino-Yugoslav Interaction in the 1970s and the 1980s

II RTB Bor's Struggle to Survive

"Strategic Partnership Agreement" in Line with BRI

The Question of Sustainability

Conclusion: The Chinese Strategic Partner and Responsible Mining in Bor

Acknowledgement

Chapter 12: The Internationalisation of Socialist Enterprises: Convergent Legacies, Divergent Developments and (Un)surprising Encounters

Humble Beginnings in the Planned Economy

Transformation of Socialist Enterprises

Internationalisations Past and Present

Convergent Internationalisations: Hisense's Takeover of Gorenje

From Life Simplified to Life Reimagined6

References.

Part V: Reflection

From Pericentricity towards Possibilism: Legacies, Afterlives, and Alterlives of the Yugo-Chinese Normative Encounters

Yugoslav-Chinese Normative Encounters

Intersecting Socialist Paths

Facing the Unipolar World

After the Global Financial Crisis

Contemporary Relevance of the Yugo-Chinese Normative Encounters

Globalisation and Sovereignty

Economic Development

Peace and Stability

Towards Yugo-Chinese Alterlives?

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-042927-0

1-04-042923-8

1-003-53249-7

9781003532491

OCLC:

1543208067

Publisher Number:

CIPO000261932