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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
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Independence and Revolution, 1911-1945
1 China and Mongolia: From Empire to National States
Facets of the Mongolia Question
Independence for the Second Time
Ethnic Separation and National Revolution
Partisan, National, and Imperial Interests
2 "Red Protective Deity": World Revolution and Geopolitics
Bolsheviks and Mongolian Partisans
Eurasian Federation vs. Soviet Empire
Divided Nation and Split Revolution
3 Dialectics of Brotherhood: The Chinese Communist Party and the Mongolian People's Republic
Revolutionary Paradox
Rally toward Periphery
Return to Centrality
Part II Autonomy and Civil War, 1945-1950
4 "National Fever": The Genesis of an
Autonomous Movement
From Colonialism to National Fever
Liberation through Unification
Degrees of Self-Government
5 Ethnic Strategy: The Eastern Mongolian Experience
Chengde Concession
Xing'an Interval
Wangyemiao Finale
6 "Restoration": The Guomindang's Administrative Endeavor
Delusive "Frontier Administration
Abortive "Restoration
Elusive "Loyalists
7 "Liberation": The Chinese Communist Party's Interethnic Approach
Decide on a Strategy
Awake to Spontaneity
Secure "National Banner
Enact "Leftist Excessiveness
Part III Ethnicity and Hegemony, 1945-1950
8 "New Frontier":America's Encounter with Inner Mongolia
Partisan Mongols
Racial Mongols
Change of Climate
Princely Connection
9 The Range of "Wild Wind": Moscow's Inner Mongolia Stratagem
A Sense of Limits
Containing Nationalism
Hierarchy of Patronage
10 The Structure of Bloc Politics: Mao, Stalin, and Mongolian Independence
A Fractured Revolutionary Alliance
Resetting the Interstate Relationship
Between National and Bloc Interests
Mongolian Independence, Again
11 Epilogue: Territoriality, Power, and Legitimacy
A Note on Transliteration
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
