Recast All under Heaven
Revolution, War, Diplomacy, and Frontier China in the 20th Century
1st Edition
Published on 12. August 2010
288 pages
978-1-4411-1801-1 (ISBN)
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1. Auflage
Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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10
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-1801-1 (9781441118011)
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Xiaoyuan Liu
Recast All under Heaven
Revolution, War, Diplomacy, and Frontier China in the 20th Century
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Xiaoyuan Liu is professor of history at Iowa State University, US and has a Zijiang Professorship at East China Normal 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), and Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism (Stanford UP, 2004). 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
Territoriality
Historical China
Sovereignty
Transformation
Chapter 2 China's Central Asian Identity
Chinese Nationalism
Frontier Nationalism
Failure of Containment
Part II Chinese Nationalist Experiences
Chapter 3 Resume China's Korean Connection
Illusive Greatness
Abortive Partnership
Elusive Contingencies
Chapter 4 Recast China's Role in Vietnam
"Big Brother"
Options
Drifting
Chapter 5 Reassert Chinese Authority in a Frontier
"Mongolian Question"
"International Conspiracy"
"Restoration"
Part III Chinese Communist Ethnopolitics
Chapter 6 "National Question" with Chinese Characteristics
Bolshevism in China
Revolutionary Independence
Interethnic Contact
Two Wings of Nationalism
Chapter 7 Solve Rubik's Cube in the Steppes
Bloc, National, and Ethnic Politics
National and Frontier Priorities
Autonomy as Rebellion
Chapter 8 Break the Vicious Circle along the Himalayas
Reverse a Verdict
Convert the Dalai Lama
Reform Tibet, or Not
"Let Them Go"
Part IV From World War to Cold War
Chapter 9 The United States and Frontier China
European and Asian "Minorities"
"Chinese Unification"
China's "Three Corners"
Politics of "Color" and "Shape"
Chapter 10 Mongolia between Beijing and Moscow
From Party to State
Old and New "Kitchen"
American Wedge
Mongolian Crack
Chapter 11 Cold and Hot Wars along the Himalayas
Second Cold War Front
Covert Operations
From Friends to Foes
From Comrades to Adversaries
Epilogue Search for a Frontier Theme
Bibliography
Index
List of Maps
Part I A Territorial Perception of Modern China
Chapter 1 Modern Transformation of Chinese Territoriality
Territoriality
Historical China
Sovereignty
Transformation
Chapter 2 China's Central Asian Identity
Chinese Nationalism
Frontier Nationalism
Failure of Containment
Part II Chinese Nationalist Experiences
Chapter 3 Resume China's Korean Connection
Illusive Greatness
Abortive Partnership
Elusive Contingencies
Chapter 4 Recast China's Role in Vietnam
"Big Brother"
Options
Drifting
Chapter 5 Reassert Chinese Authority in a Frontier
"Mongolian Question"
"International Conspiracy"
"Restoration"
Part III Chinese Communist Ethnopolitics
Chapter 6 "National Question" with Chinese Characteristics
Bolshevism in China
Revolutionary Independence
Interethnic Contact
Two Wings of Nationalism
Chapter 7 Solve Rubik's Cube in the Steppes
Bloc, National, and Ethnic Politics
National and Frontier Priorities
Autonomy as Rebellion
Chapter 8 Break the Vicious Circle along the Himalayas
Reverse a Verdict
Convert the Dalai Lama
Reform Tibet, or Not
"Let Them Go"
Part IV From World War to Cold War
Chapter 9 The United States and Frontier China
European and Asian "Minorities"
"Chinese Unification"
China's "Three Corners"
Politics of "Color" and "Shape"
Chapter 10 Mongolia between Beijing and Moscow
From Party to State
Old and New "Kitchen"
American Wedge
Mongolian Crack
Chapter 11 Cold and Hot Wars along the Himalayas
Second Cold War Front
Covert Operations
From Friends to Foes
From Comrades to Adversaries
Epilogue Search for a Frontier Theme
Bibliography
Index
