Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West

by Hsiao-ting Lin

The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-?-vis post-Qing China's ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China's Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security.

The Chinese Revolution of 1911, initiated by Sun Yat-sen, liberated the Han Chinese from the rule of the Manchus and ended the Qing dynastic order that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415855403
• ISBN13: 9780415855402
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages