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THE CHINESE STATE AT THE BORDERS
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| By: |
Diana Lary (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£87.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0774813334 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774813334 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 May, 2007 |
| Series: |
Contemporary Chinese Studies |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
In this ground-breaking study, Hsiao Ting Lin demonstrates that theChinese frontier was the subject neither of concerted aggression on thepart of a centralized and indoctrinated Chinese government nor of anideologically driven nationalist ethnopolitics. Instead, nationalistsovereignty over Tibet and other border regions was the result ofrhetorical grandstanding by Chiang Kai-shek and his regime. Tibetand Nationalist China's Frontier makes a crucialcontribution to the understanding of past and present China-Tibetrelations. A counterpoint to erroneous historical assumptions, thisbook will change the way Tibetologists and modern Chinese historiansframe future studies of the region. |
| Illustrations: |
3 b&w figures, 6 maps |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of British Columbia Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Longlisted for the 2007 International Convention of Asia Scholars |
| Returns: |
Returnable |