Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier

by Uradyn E. Bulag

Cosmopolitanism and friendship have become key themes for understanding ethnicity and nationalism. In this deeply original study of the Mongols, leading scholar Uradyn E. Bulag draws on these themes to develop a new concept he terms "collaborative nationalism." He uses this concept to explore the paradoxical dilemma of minorities in China as they fight not against being excluded but against being embraced too tightly in the bonds of "friendship."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442204311
• ISBN13: 9781442204317
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"