Stanford University Press
Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921-1945
Key Metrics
- Xiaoyuan Liu
- Stanford University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780804749602
- 9.44 X 6.26 X 0.9 inches
- 1.21 pounds
- History > Asia - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In this pathbreaking book, Xiaoyuan Liu establishes the ways in which the history of the Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan'an period onward, intertwined with the ethnopolitics of the Chinese periphery. As a Han-dominated party, the CCP had to adapt to an inhospitable political environment, particularly among the Hui (Muslims) of northwest China and the Mongols of Inner Mongolia. Based on a careful examination of CCP and Soviet Comintern documents only recently available, Liu's study shows why the CCP found itself unable to follow the Russian Bolshevik precedent by inciting separatism among the non-Han peoples as a stratagem for gaining national power. Rather than swallowing Marxist-Leninist dogma on the nationalities question, the CCP took a position closer to that of the Kuomintang, stressing the inclusiveness of the Han-dominated Chinese nation, Zhongua Minzu.
Author Bio
Xiaoyuan Liu is David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies & Professor of History at at University of Virginia. Professor Liu's research interests cover China’s ethnic-frontier affairs in international politics, Chinese-American relations in the 20th century, and East Asian international history
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Iowa, 1990
- M.A., The University of Iowa, 1984
- Beijing Teachers College, Class 1974
Source: Corcoran Department of History University of Virginia
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