Recast All Under Heaven
Revolution, War, Diplomacy, and Frontier China in the 20th Century
Published on 12. August 2010
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-4411-6220-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a unique work that combines the 20th-century history of all China's frontier lands in one book. "Recast All under Heaven" studies the outer regions of China (e.g., Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet) in the twentieth century. By applying the two interpretative themes of 'frontier' and 'ethnicity' to the modern transformation of China, the book investigates 'domestic' and 'international' developments that helped transform the territorial domain and ethnic composition of the Chinese state from 'imperial' to 'national'. The book is based on published and archival information that became available in recent years, bringing 'frontier China' back into the mainstream of Chinese studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 bw illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-6220-5 (9781441162205)
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Person
Xiaoyuan Liu is professor of history of Iowa State University. He has worked on the issue of modern China's territories and ethnic frontiers for more than a decade. He is the author of Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911 - 1950 (Stanford UP, 2006), Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism (Stanford UP, 2004), and A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postward Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941 - 1945 (Cambridge UP, 1996 and 2002). He is a leading scholar in the field of East Asian international history and a pioneer historian who provides fresh paradigms and opens new grounds.
Content
Preface; List of Maps; Part I A Territorial Perception of Modern China; Chapter 1 Modern Transformation of Chinese Territoriality; Chapter 2 China's Central Asian Identity; Part II Chinese Nationalist Experiences; Chapter 3 Resume China's Korean Connection; Chapter 4 Recast China's Role in Vietnam; Chapter 5 Reassert Chinese Authority in a Frontier; Part III Chinese Communist Ethnopolitics; Chapter 6 "National Question" with Chinese Characteristics; Chapter 7 Solve Rubik's Cube in the Steppes; Chapter 8 Break the Vicious Circle along the Himalayas; Part IV From World War to Cold War; Chapter 9 The United States and Frontier China; Chapter 10 Mongolia between Beijing and Moscow; Chapter 11 Cold and Hot Wars along the Himalayas; Epilogue Search for a Frontier Theme; Bibliography; Index.