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Lin (a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U.) analyzes the approach of China's Nationalist Government to Tibet and other ethnic borderlands from 1928 until their defeat by the Communists in 1949. After an introduction to the political and territorial landscape at the outset of the Nationalist era, he looks at Nationalist approaches to Tibet issues in the prewar decade, arguing that Nationalist political efforts to incorporate Tibet into China were much more equivocal than previous analysis has suggested and discussing political motives for the Nationalist frontier policy beyond pure frontier and minority objectives. Shifting to the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), he situates the Sino-Tibetan relationship in the context of international wartime rivalries, finding that Chiang Kai-shek and his confreres took a pragmatic stand towards Tibet. Finally, he examines the crucial final four years of Nationalist rule, this time concentrating on confrontations between the Han Chinese and various minority groups and the government's state-building efforts in the southwest peripheries. Distributed in the US by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
