Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-269) and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Prologue -- Pt. 1: The setting. A localized regime, national image, and territorial fragmentation ; Professed frontier policy, policy planners, and imagined sovereignty -- Pt. 2: The prewar decade, 1928-37. The unquiet Southwestern borderlands ; The mission to Tibet ; "Commissioner" politics -- Pt. 3: The wartime period, 1938-45. Building a nationalist-controlled state in Southwest China ; The issue of the China-India roadway via Tibet ; Rhetoric, reality, and wartime China's Tibetan concerns -- Pt. 4: The postwar period, 1945-49. Postwar frontier planning vis-à-vis non-Han separatist movements ; The Sera Monastery incident -- Epilogue -- Glossary of names and terms.
Summary:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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