1st Edition

Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers A Journey to the West

By Hsiao-ting Lin Copyright 2011
224 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-à-vis post-Qing China’s ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China’s Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security. The Chinese Revolution of 1911, initiated by Sun Yat-sen, liberated the Han Chinese from the rule of the... Read more

Prologue  1. Early Years and Early Strategies  2. Frontier Politics in Metropolitan China  3. In Search of a New Territorial Base  4. War and New Frontier Designs  5. War and Opportunities  6. Reconfiguring Ethnic Frontier Territoriality  Epilogue: The End of the Journey

 

Biography

Hsiao-ting Lin is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA.