Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774813013)

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.

Author: Hsaio-Ting Lin
ISBN-10: 0774813016
ISBN-13: 9780774813013
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2006
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.22w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 59