Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier : Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49.

Intro -- Contents -- Maps, Tables, Photographs -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part 1: The Setting -- 1 A Localized Regime, National Image, and Territorial Fragmentation -- 2 Professed Frontier Policy, Policy Planners, and Imagined Sovereignty -- Part 2: The Prewar Decade, 1928-37 -- 3 The Unquiet Southwestern Borderlands -- 4 The Mission to Tibet -- 5 "Commissioner" Politics -- Part 3: The Wartime Period, 1938-45 -- 6 Building a Nationalist-Controlled State in Southwest China -- 7 The Issue of the China-India Roadway via Tibet -- 8 Rhetoric, Reality, and Wartime China's Tibetan Concerns -- Part 4: The Postwar Period, 1945-49 -- 9 Postwar Frontier Planning vis-à-vis non-Han Separatist Movements -- 10 The Sera Monastery Incident -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

A counterpoint to erroneous historical assumptions, this book argues that Nationalist sovereignty over Tibet and China's other border regions was the result of rhetorical grandstanding by Chiang Kai-shek and his regime.

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