Recast All under Heaven

Xiaoyuan Liu is professor of history at Iowa State University. He has worked on the issue of modern China's territories and ethnic frontiers for more than a decade. He is the author of Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911 - 1950 (Stanford UP, 2006), Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism (Stanford UP, 2004), and A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postward Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941 - 1945 (Cambridge UP, 1996 and 2002). He is a leading scholar in the field of East Asian international history and a pioneer historian who provides fresh paradigms and opens new grounds.

• Preface; List of Maps; Part I A Territorial Perception of Modern China; Chapter 1 Modern Transformation of Chinese Territoriality; Chapter 2 China's Central Asian Identity; Part II Chinese Nationalist Experiences; Chapter 3 Resume China's Korean Connection; Chapter 4 Recast China's Role in Vietnam; Chapter 5 Reassert Chinese Authority in a Frontier; Part III Chinese Communist Ethnopolitics; Chapter 6 "National Question" with Chinese Characteristics; Chapter 7 Solve Rubik's Cube in the Steppes; Chapter 8 Break the Vicious Circle along the Himalayas; Part IV From World War to Cold War; Chapter 9 The United States and Frontier China; Chapter 10 Mongolia between Beijing and Moscow; Chapter 11 Cold and Hot Wars along the Himalayas; Epilogue Search for a Frontier Theme; Bibliography; Index.

"In this collection of well-argued essays, Professor Xiaoyuan Liu offers an extremely valuable perspective on the evolution of China's "geo-body" in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--that is, its evolution from an empire to a "modern" nation state. This complex process involved a constant effort to reconcile the unifying impulses of the central government with the vibrant ethnic particularism that existed within China's constantly shifting borders."Richard J. Smith,George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History, Rice University, USA