China S Frontier Regions

Author : Michael E. Clarke,Douglas Smith (Lecturer in international relations)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : 1350985716

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China's Frontier Regions by Michael E. Clarke,Douglas Smith (Lecturer in international relations) Pdf

"China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions--Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan--as buffer zones. Yet their importance as commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China and it west and southwest has meant they are crucial for China's ongoing development. The resurgence of China under Deng Xiaoping's policy of 'reform and opening' has therefore led to a focus on integrating these regions into the PRC (People's Republic of China). This has important implications not only for the frontier regions themselves but also for the neighbouring states, with which they have strong cultural, religious, linguistic and economic ties. China's Frontier Regions explores the challenges presented by this integrationist policy, both for domestic relations and for diplomatic and foreign policy relations with the countries abutting their frontier regions."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Doug Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857727428

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China’s Frontier Regions by Doug Smith Pdf

China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions--Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan--as buffer zones. Yet their importance as commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China and it west and southwest has meant they are crucial for China's ongoing development. The resurgence of China under Deng Xiaoping's policy of 'reform and opening' has therefore led to a focus on integrating these regions into the PRC (People's Republic of China). This has important implications not only for the frontier regions themselves but also for the neighbouring states, with which they have strong cultural, religious, linguistic and economic ties. China's Frontier Regions explores the challenges presented by this integrationist policy, both for domestic relations and for diplomatic and foreign policy relations with the countries abutting their frontier regions.

Author : Zenel Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000436631

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China’s Western Frontier and Eurasia by Zenel Garcia Pdf

China has emerged as a dominant power in Eurasian affairs that not only exercises significant political and economic power, but increasingly, ideational power too. Since the founding of the People’s Republic, Chinese Communist Party leaders have sought to increase state capacity and exercise more effective control over their western frontier through a series of state-building initiatives. Although these initiatives have always incorporated an international component, the collapse of the USSR, increasing globalization, and the party’s professed concerns about terrorism, separatism, and extremism have led to a region-building project in Eurasia. Garcia traces how domestic elite-led narratives about security and development generate state-building initiatives, and then region-building projects. He also assesses how region-building projects are promoted through narratives of the historicity of China’s engagement in Eurasia, the promotion of norms of non-interference, and appeals to mutual development. Finally, he traces the construction of regions through formal and informal institutions as well as integrative infrastructure. By presenting three phases of Chinese domestic state-building and region-building from 1988-present, Garcia shows how region-building projects have enabled China to increase state capacity, control, and development in its western frontier. Recommended for scholars of China’s international relations and development policy.

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824880040

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China's Island Frontier by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited principally by aborigines. Then, rather abruptly, the island was thrust into the maelstrom of European commercial expansion in East Asia, which in its wake drew Chinese peasant pioneers across the straits to Taiwan. This is the story, told from many viewpoints, of how Taiwan was transformed over a period of three centuries from a raw frontier to a stable entity with social and economic patterns similar to those found along the coastal mainland of southeastern China.

Author : Henry G. Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : China
ISBN : IND:30000104172980

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Leadership Patterns in China's Frontier Regions by Henry G. Schwarz Pdf

Author : Ben Hillman,Gray Tuttle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231540445

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Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang by Ben Hillman,Gray Tuttle Pdf

Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why certain areas have seen higher concentrations of ethnic-based violence than others. Essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the origins of unrest in contemporary Tibet and Xinjiang, this volume considers the role of propaganda and education as generators and sources of conflict. It links interethnic strife to economic growth and connects environmental degradation to increased instability. It captures the subtle difference between violence in urban Xinjiang and conflict in rural Tibet, with detailed portraits of everyday individuals caught among the pressures of politics, history, personal interest, and global movements with local resonance.

Author : Hsaio-ting Lin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774859882

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Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier by Hsaio-ting Lin Pdf

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.

Author : George V. H. Moseley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520359888

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The Consolidation of the South China Frontier by George V. H. Moseley Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105095789421

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External Research Paper 149: Leadership Patterns in China's Frontier Regions by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Franck Billé,Grégory Delaplace,Caroline Humphrey
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924874

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Frontier Encounters by Franck Billé,Grégory Delaplace,Caroline Humphrey Pdf

China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Despite their proximity, their interactions with each other - and with their third neighbour Mongolia - are rarely discussed. Although the three countries share a boundary, their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China's search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia's fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful resources. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and economists, this timely collection of essays offers new perspectives on an area that is currently of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political relevance.

Author : Victor Zatsepine
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774834124

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Beyond the Amur by Victor Zatsepine Pdf

Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for resources. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires. Zatsepine, by contrast, views it as a unified natural economy populated by Chinese, Russian, Indigenous, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, and Mongol people who crossed the border in search of work or trade and who came together to survive a harsh physical environment. This colourful account of a region and its people highlights the often-overlooked influence of frontier developments on state politics and imperial policies and histories.

Author : Morris Rossabi
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295983905

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Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers by Morris Rossabi Pdf

Leading scholars examine the Chinese government’s administration of its ethnic minority regions, particularly border areas where ethnicity is at times a volatile issue and where separatist movements are feared. Chapters focus on the Muslim Hui, multiethnic southwest China, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet. Together these studies provide an overview of government relations with key minority populations, against which one can view evolving dialogues and disputes. Contributors are Gardner Bovington, David Bachman, Uradyn E. Bulag, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Mette Halskov Hansen, Matthew T. Kapstein, and Jonathan Lipman.

Author : Piper Rae Gaubatz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0804723990

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Beyond the Great Wall by Piper Rae Gaubatz Pdf

This study of cities on China's inland frontiers from ancient times to the present charts new territory in both geography and Chinese studies. As a work of geography, it integrates the approaches of urban geography, cultural historical geography, and frontier studies to assess the form and function of cities on the Chinese frontiers. In Chinese studies, it is the first work to explore the nature of urbanism on Chinese frontiers, and the first work in English to present comparative case studies of a group of Chinese frontier cities. Beyond the Great Wall focuses on five cities, all originally established as frontier garrisons, which now flourish with populations of over a million as capitals of the ethnically diverse regions in which they are located. The cities are Kunming, Lanzhou, Xining, Hohhot, and Urumqi. The author explores how the urban ideals and practices of eastern China were adapted to the natural and human conditions of the frontier regions, and in the process she analyzes the interaction of Chinese and non-Chinese peoples in frontier cities in outlining the historical development of each city.

Author : Nola Cooke,Tana Li
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742530833

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Water Frontier by Nola Cooke,Tana Li Pdf

This innovative book rethinks the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century history of coastal and riverine southwest Indochina, the 'water frontier' of the title. It repositions old state-centered histories to reveal the region as a single, multiethnic economic zone knit together by the itineraries of junk traders and by the activities of many southern Chinese, settlers, sojourners, and merchants, whose local significance it explores. In so doing, it pioneers a new, nationally-neutral way of perceiving this dynamic region.

Author : James Z. Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : China
ISBN : 0674002415

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The Political Economy of a Frontier by James Z. Lee Pdf

Much of the Chinese history involves the absorption of frontier areas. The processes of Chinese state and social formation are therefore closely intertwined with the formation and transformation of China's many frontiers. This book examines one such frontier: the Southwest, specifically the present-day provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou. Beginning with the Yuan conquest of the area in 1253, James Lee traces the development of an integrated regional economy by 1750 by concentrating on the major periods of Chinese expansion in the 15th and 18th centuries and the major components of growth (land, labour, and capital). Arguing that the imperial policies had a major impact on the local economy, he focuses on the role of the Chinese state in the economic development of the Southwest.