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Book Sino Mongolian Relations  1949 2004

Download or read book Sino Mongolian Relations 1949 2004 written by Shakti Madhok and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relations between two sovereign and neighbourly states is always a ticklish problem, Mongolia a country landlocked between China on the one side and Russia on the other had a hoary and belligerant past. In thirteenth and fourteenth centuries it ruled over almost one - third of the civilized world including China. Mongolia's relationship with China had a chequered history and in fact it always needed an extraordinary efforts on the part of Mongolia to maintain correctâ if not cordial ties wirh China. (Excerpts from the book). China being a civilizational state has had a foreign affairs agenda of its own. At times it was tune in with the rest of the Socialist bloc but most of the time it followed an independent line. Political dominance of the Soviet Union over Mongolia was not acceptable to China which had exercised suzerain rights over Mongolia for more than a century. The situation became worse after the Sino- Soviet schism and Mongolia toeing the Soviet line. Mongolia tried to play China against the Soviet Union and vice-versa to meet its security requirements and overcome its economic under-development and above all to maintain its distinct identity in the comity of nations. Traditionally being a center of both Pan - Buddhist and Pan - Mongol movements, it tried to maintain cutural togetherness with both the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China and the Buryat Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. In the post-Mao period, the Sino-Soviet schism was perceived as a Maoist fallacy and earnest attempts were made by the post-Mao genre of Chinese leaders to free foreign policy from Maoist agenda. This coupled with openness in the Soviet Union resulted in normalization of Sino-Soviet relations. How this contributed to normalization of relations between China and Mongolia and the subsequent emergence of Mongolia as a democratic state is brought out at length in this study. The last chapter also throws light on what can be the future prospects for relations between two neighbours China and Mongolia. "

Book Mongolia China Relations

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  • Author : Sharad Kumar Soni
  • Publisher : Pentagon Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9788182741966
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Mongolia China Relations written by Sharad Kumar Soni and published by Pentagon Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the historical roots of Mongolia-China relations and analyses the pattern of the diverse relations between the two countries in modern and contemporary times. The examines the circumstances leading to the incorporation of Inner Mongolia into China and looks at the shift in Moscow's China policy following Gorbachev's Vladivostok initiative.

Book China   s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective

Download or read book China s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective written by Steven F. Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s relations with its neighbors have evolved since 1949, and in the 21st century many scholars argue that China’s rising power has led it to be increasingly domineering over those smaller countries in Northeast, Southeast, Central, and South Asia. The evolution of China’s regional relations needs to be examined comprehensively, since China counts twenty-seven countries as its "neighbors" large and small. While China’s official policy toward all of these countries is to treat them as "good neighbors" and "partners," some of these relationships have been spectacularly deteriorating, while others have been quietly improving over the last two decades. Jackson takes a comparative foreign policy approach, and compares China’s status as a regional hegemon with the United States, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa and Nigeria. The result is a broader theory as to why regional powers are sometimes intimidating and at other times accommodating. An important contribution to studies on China, this book will prove useful to scholars and students in Chinese and Asian foreign policy, comparative foreign policy, and international relations.

Book Sinophobia

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  • Author : Franck Billé
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2014-10-31
  • ISBN : 0824847830
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Sinophobia written by Franck Billé and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinophobia is a timely and groundbreaking study of the anti-Chinese sentiments currently widespread in Mongolia. Graffiti calling for the removal of Chinese dot the urban landscape, songs about killing the Chinese are played in public spaces, and rumors concerning Chinese plans to take over the country and exterminate the Mongols are rife. Such violent anti-Chinese feelings are frequently explained as a consequence of China’s meteoric economic development, a cause of much anxiety for her immediate neighbors and particularly for Mongolia, a large but sparsely populated country that is rich in mineral resources. Other analysts point to deeply entrenched antagonisms and to centuries of hostility between the two groups, implying unbridgeable cultural differences. Franck Billé challenges these reductive explanations. Drawing on extended fieldwork, interviews, and a wide range of sources in Mongolian, Chinese, and Russian, he argues that anti-Chinese sentiments are not a new phenomenon but go back to the late socialist period (1960–1990) when Mongolia’s political and cultural life was deeply intertwined with Russia’s. Through an in-depth analysis of media discourses, Billé shows how stereotypes of the Chinese emerged through an internalization of Russian ideas of Asia, and how they can easily extend to other Asian groups such as Koreans or Vietnamese. He argues that the anti-Chinese attitudes of Mongols reflect an essential desire to distance themselves from Asia overall and to reject their own Asianness. The spectral presence of China, imagined to be everywhere and potentially in everyone, thus produces a pervasive climate of mistrust, suspicion, and paranoia. Through its detailed ethnography and innovative approach, Sinophobia makes a critical intervention in racial and ethnic studies by foregrounding Sinophobic narratives and by integrating psychoanalytical insights into its analysis. In addition to making a useful contribution to the study of Mongolia, it will be essential reading for anthropologists, sociologists, and historians interested in ethnicity, nationalism, and xenophobia.

Book Frontier Encounters

Download or read book Frontier Encounters written by Franck Billé and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Despite their proximity, their interactions with each other - and with their third neighbour Mongolia - are rarely discussed. Although the three countries share a boundary, their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China's search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia's fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful resources. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and economists, this timely collection of essays offers new perspectives on an area that is currently of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political relevance.

Book Governing China s Multiethnic Frontiers

Download or read book Governing China s Multiethnic Frontiers written by Morris Rossabi and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximatelyeight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the fifty-five official "minority nationalities." However, minority culture suffered widespread destruction in the early decades of the People’s Republic of China, and minority areas still lag far behind Han (majority) areas economically. Since the mid-1990s, both domestic and foreign developments have refocused government attention on the inhabitants of China’s minority regions, their relationship to the Chinese state, and their foreign ties. Intense economic development of and Han settlement in China’s remote minority regions threaten to displace indigenous populations, post-Soviet establishment of independent countries composed mainly of Muslim and Turkic-speaking peoples presents questions for related groups in China, freedom of Mongolia from Soviet control raises the specter of a pan-Mongolian movement encompassing Chinese Mongols, and international groups press for a more autonomous or even independent Tibet. In Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers, leading scholars examine the Chinese government’s administration of its ethnic minority regions, particularly border areas where ethnicity is at times a volatile issue and where separatist movements are feared. Seven essays focus on the Muslim Hui, multiethnic southwest China, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet. Together these studies provide an overview of government relations with key minority populations, against which one can view evolving dialogues and disputes.

Book 2005

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  • Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2009-12-22
  • ISBN : 3598441614
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book 2005 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually published since 1930, the International Bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The IBOHS is thus currently the only continuous bibliography of its kind covering such a broad period of time, spectrum of subjects and geographical range. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and alphabetically according to authors names or, in the case of anonymous works, by the characteristic main title word. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.

Book Mongolian Studies

Download or read book Mongolian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin  Inside China s Cold War

Download or read book Bulletin Inside China s Cold War written by and published by Cold War Bulletin. This book was released on with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asia Annual 2004

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  • Author : Mahavir Singh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9788175412309
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Asia Annual 2004 written by Mahavir Singh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia Annual Is The Crossdisciplinary Journal Of The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute Of Asian Studies, Kolkata. ;;The Current Volume, The Fifth In Succession, Contains Twentyone Wellresearched Articles, Authored By Eminent Scholars From India

Book A Misunderstood Friendship

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  • Author : Zhihua Shen
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2020-11-03
  • ISBN : 0231553676
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book A Misunderstood Friendship written by Zhihua Shen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on shared political ideals—an alliance “as tight as lips to teeth”—even though relations have deteriorated in recent years due to China’s ascendance and North Korea’s intransigence. In A Misunderstood Friendship, leading diplomatic historians Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on previously untapped primary source materials revealing tensions and rivalries to offer a unique account of the China–North Korea relationship. They unravel the twists and turns in high-level diplomacy between China and North Korea from the late 1940s to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Through unprecedented access to Chinese government documents, Soviet and Eastern European archives, and in-depth interviews with former Chinese diplomats and North Korean defectors, Shen and Xia reveal that the tensions that currently plague the alliance between the two countries have been present from the very beginning of the relationship. They significantly revise existing narratives of the Korean War, China’s postwar aid to North Korea, Kim Il-sung’s ideological and strategic thinking, North Korea’s relations with the Soviet Union, and the importance of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement, among other issues. A Misunderstood Friendship adds new depth to our understanding of one of the most secretive and significant relationships of the Cold War, with increasing relevance to international affairs today.

Book China   s Frontier Regions

Download or read book China s Frontier Regions written by Doug Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions--Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan--as buffer zones. Yet their importance as commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China and it west and southwest has meant they are crucial for China's ongoing development. The resurgence of China under Deng Xiaoping's policy of 'reform and opening' has therefore led to a focus on integrating these regions into the PRC (People's Republic of China). This has important implications not only for the frontier regions themselves but also for the neighbouring states, with which they have strong cultural, religious, linguistic and economic ties. China's Frontier Regions explores the challenges presented by this integrationist policy, both for domestic relations and for diplomatic and foreign policy relations with the countries abutting their frontier regions.

Book China   Japan Relations after World War Two

Download or read book China Japan Relations after World War Two written by Amy King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich empirical account of China's foreign economic policy towards Japan after World War Two, drawing on hundreds of recently declassified Chinese sources. Amy King offers an innovative conceptual framework for the role of ideas in shaping foreign policy, and examines how China's Communist leaders conceived of Japan after the war. The book shows how Japan became China's most important economic partner in 1971, despite the recent history of war and the ongoing Cold War divide between the two countries. It explains that China's Communist leaders saw Japan as a symbol of a modern, industrialised nation, and Japanese goods, technology and expertise as crucial in strengthening China's economy and military. For China and Japan, the years between 1949 and 1971 were not simply a moment disrupted by the Cold War, but rather an important moment of non-Western modernisation stemming from the legacy of Japanese empire, industry and war in China.

Book Inside China s Cold War

Download or read book Inside China s Cold War written by Christian F. Ostermann and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring new evidence on: Mao, Stalin, and the road to the 1950 Summit; The 1954 Geneva Conference; Sino-Albanian summits 1961-67; Mongolia and the Cold War; North Korea in 1956; Romania and the Sino-US opening."--Cover

Book China and the International System  1840 1949

Download or read book China and the International System 1840 1949 written by David Scott and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.

Book Ethno diplomacy

Download or read book Ethno diplomacy written by Yitzhak Shichor and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1949, China responded to so-called Uyghur separatism and the quest for Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang) independence as a domestic problem. Since the mid-1990s, however, when it became aware of the international aspects of this problem, Beijing has begun to pressure Turkey to limit its support for Uyghur activism. Aimed not only at cultural preservation but also at Eastern Turkestan independence, Uyghur activism remained unnoticed until the 1990s, despite the establishment in 1971 of Sino-Turkish diplomatic relations. Possibly less concerned about the Uyghur threat than it suggests, Beijing may simply be using the Uyghurs to intimidate and manipulate Turkey and other governments, primarily those in Central Asia.

Book Crossroads of Cuisine

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  • Author : Paul David Buell
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-11-04
  • ISBN : 9004432108
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Crossroads of Cuisine written by Paul David Buell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads of Cuisine offers history of food and cultural exchanges in and around Central Asia. It discusses geographical base, and offers historical and cultural overview. A photo essay binds it all together. The book offers new views of the past.