A Partnership of Disorder examines the American-Chinese foreign policy planning in World War II for decolonizing the Japanese Empire and controlling Japan after the war. The study reveals how their d
This unique work studiesthe 20th-century continuation of a historical process that began in themid-19th century, the modern transformation of Chinese territoriality.
Liu (history, Iowa State U.) traces the "Mongolian question" as it evolved in Chinese politics about national identity during the first half of the twentieth century, including how the question was ha
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 Ch
"Xiaoyuan Liu has provided a most compelling study of frontier in the shaping of modern China's territorial identity. Ethnopolitics, usually confined to the domestic sphere, must now be 'recast' and b
China is a site for the evolution, not only of Chinese nationalism, but the nationalism of various non-Han ethnic groups. During the 20th century, these ethnic groups constructed and expressed their o
