
Recast All under Heaven
Revolution, War, Diplomacy, and Frontier China in the 20th Century
Xiaoyuan Liu(Author)
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 12. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4411-3489-9 (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.
Reviews / Votes
"In this collection of well-argued essays, Professor Xiaoyuan Liu offers an extremely valuable perspective on the evolution of China's "geo-body" in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--that is, its evolution from an empire to a "modern" nation state. This complex process involved a constant effort to reconcile the unifying impulses of the central government with the vibrant ethnic particularism that existed within China's constantly shifting borders."Richard J. Smith,George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History, Rice University, USA "The rise of China to the status of a global power necessitated its transformation from a loosely integrated empire into a modern state. This process entailed the assertion of central control over Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, Inner Asian lands that had long been contested by foreign powers and nurtured their own aspirations for independence or genuine autonomy. In this illuminating set of essays, Liu Xiaoyuan, the master of China's frontier history and ethnopolitics, ranges widely across the boundaries of space and time to examine how modern China came into being. By emphasizing the seemingly paradoxical centrality of the periphery in the consolidation and legitimation of Chinese political authority, Liu explains Beijing's concern about trouble on its Inner Asian frontiers and expands our understanding of China's modern history." --Steven I. Levine, Senior Research Associate, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, The University of Montana "Xiaoyuan Liu has provided a most compelling study of frontier in the shaping of modern China modern territorial identity. Ethnopolitics, usually confined to the domestic sphere, must now be "recast" and brought to the forefront of any attempt to understand China's international relations, and vice versa."--Uradyn E. Bulag, University of CambridgeMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
10
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
438 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-3489-9 (9781441134899)
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Xiaoyuan Liu
Recast All under Heaven
Revolution, War, Diplomacy, and Frontier China in the 20th Century
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Person
Xiaoyuan Liu is professor of history at 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.