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Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier

Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49

by (author) Hsaio-ting Lin

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2006
Category
China, Nationalism
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774813013
    Publish Date
    Oct 2006
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774859882
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • 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.