The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices
of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-a-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 had existed
for centuries. With the collapse of the Qing dynasty, the Mongols
and the Tibetans, who had been dominated by the Manchus, took
advantage of the revolution and declared their independence. Under
the leadership of Yuan Shikai, the new Chinese Republican
government in Peking in turn proclaimed the similar
"five-nationality Republic" proposed by the Revolutionaries as a
model with which to sustain the deteriorating Qing territorial
order. The shifting politics of the multi-ethnic state during the
regime transition and the role those politics played in defining
the identity of the modern Chinese state were issues that would
haunt the new Chinese Republic from its inception to its downfall.
Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers will be of interest to students and
scholars of Chinese history, Asian history and modern history.
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