The Chinese State at the Borders

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774813342
• ISBN13: 9780774813341
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"