Author : Hsaio-ting Lin
Release : 2011-01-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 881/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier by : Hsaio-ting Lin
Download or read book Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier written by Hsaio-ting Lin. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.