Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier
Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2006
- Category
- China, Nationalism
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774813013
- Publish Date
- Oct 2006
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774859882
- Publish Date
- Jan 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774813020
- Publish Date
- Jul 2007
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Hsiao-ting Lin is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.