Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950Stanford University Press, 2006 - 474 pages The author's purpose in writing this book is to use the Mongolian question to illuminate much larger issues of twentieth-century Asian history: how war, revolution, and great-power rivalries induced or restrained the formation of nationhood and territoriality. He thus continues the argument he made in Frontier Passages that on its way to building a communist state, the CCP was confronted by a series of fundamental issues pertinent to China's transition to nation-statehood. The book's focus is on the Mongolian question, which ran through Chinese politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Between the Revolution of 1911 and the Communists' triumph in 1949, the course of the Mongolian question best illustrates the genesis, clashes, and convergence of Chinese and Mongolian national identities and geopolitical visions. |
Contents
From Empire to National States | 3 |
World Revolution and Geopolitics | 45 |
The Chinese Communist Party | 78 |
The Genesis of | 115 |
The Guomindangs Administrative Endeavor | 195 |
The Chinese Communist Partys | 235 |
Americas Encounter with Inner Mongolia | 283 |
Racial Mongols | 293 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Affairs American Archives Asia Asian August Beijing CCP cadres CCP Central Committee CCP leaders CCP leadership CCP's CCPCC Chengde China Chinese Civil War Chinese Communist Chinese nationalism Choibalsan Comintern Communist Party Dang'an delegation diplomacy Documents eastern Mongol leaders eastern Mongolian movement ethnic ethnopolitical force foreign frontier Fu Zuoyi GMD government GMD regime GMD's golian GRDS History Hohhot ibid IMAMA IMPRP Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolian Autonomous Japan Japanese Jiang Jieshi Khafengga Manchu Manchuria Mao Zedong Mao's military Mongolia question Mongolian Autonomous Government Mongolian Autonomous Movement Mongolian nationalism Moscow MPR's MWWH nationalist Neimenggu Outer Mongolia political postwar Prince De's Qing Red Army region Rehe Renmin Chubanshe revolution revolutionary Russian Sino-Soviet Soviet Union Soviet-Mongolian Stalin strategy struggle Suiyuan Sunid Temurbagana territories treaty troops Ulaanbaatar Ulanhu University Press Wang Wangyemiao Wedemeyer Wenxian Western Xing'an Xinjiang Yan'an Yun's Zhang Zhangjiakou Zhongyang Zhou Ziliao