Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier
Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49
Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier is invaluable for
an understanding of past and present China-Tibet relations.
Description
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.