Stanford University Press
Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950
Key Metrics
- Xiaoyuan Liu
- Stanford University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780804754262
- 9.38 X 6.34 X 1.41 inches
- 2.11 pounds
- History > Asia - China
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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.
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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