Recast All Under Heaven: Revolution, War, Diplomacy, and Frontier China in the 20th Century - Hardcover

Liu, Professor Of History Xiaoyuan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441162208 ISBN 13: 9781441162205

Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2010

Synopsis

This is a unique work that combines the 20th-century history of all China's frontier lands in one book. "Recast All under Heaven" studies the outer regions of China (e.g., Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet) in the twentieth century. By applying the two interpretative themes of 'frontier' and 'ethnicity' to the modern transformation of China, the book investigates 'domestic' and 'international' developments that helped transform the territorial domain and ethnic composition of the Chinese state from 'imperial' to 'national'. The book is based on published and archival information that became available in recent years, bringing 'frontier China' back into the mainstream of Chinese studies.

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About the Author

Xiaoyuan Liu is professor of history at Iowa State University, US and has a Zijiang Professorship at East China Normal University. He has worked on the issue of modern China's territories and ethnic frontiers for more than a decade. He is the author of Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911 - 1950 (Stanford UP, 2006), and Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism (Stanford UP, 2004). He is a leading scholar in the field of East Asian international history and a pioneer historian who provides fresh paradigms and opens new grounds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441162208
• ISBN 13: 9781441162205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288