China's policies towards Tibet and other ethnic border territories during the political reign of Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists are often understood as a deliberate exercise of power. In this groundbreaking study, Hsiao-ting Lin demonstrates that the 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.
Lin utilizes recently declassified Chinese official documents to reveal how the Nationalist sovereignty over Tibet and other border regions was more...
China's policies towards Tibet and other ethnic border territories during the political reign of Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists are often und...
The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-a-vis post-Qing China s ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China s Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security.
The Chinese Revolution of 1911, initiated by Sun Yat-sen, liberated the Han Chinese from the rule of the Manchus and ended the Qing dynastic order that had existed for centuries. With the collapse of the Qing dynasty, the Mongols and the Tibetans, who had been dominated by the Manchus, took advantage...
The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-a-vis post-Qing China s ethnic minorities, ...
