Preface
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Part I        A Territorial Perception of Modern China

Chapter 1    Modern Transformation of Chinese Territoriality
        Territoriality
        Historical China
        Sovereignty
        Transformation

Chapter 2    China's Central Asian Identity
        Chinese Nationalism
        Frontier Nationalism
        Failure of Containment
       
Part II        Chinese Nationalist Experiences

Chapter 3    Resume China's Korean Connection
        Illusive Greatness
        Abortive Partnership
        Elusive Contingencies

Chapter 4    Recast China's Role in Vietnam
         "Big Brother"
        Options
        Drifting
   
Chapter 5    Reassert Chinese Authority in a Frontier
        "Mongolian Question"
        "International Conspiracy"
        "Restoration"

Part III        Chinese Communist Ethnopolitics

Chapter 6    "National Question" with Chinese Characteristics
        Bolshevism in China
        Revolutionary Independence
        Interethnic Contact
        Two Wings of Nationalism

Chapter 7    Solve Rubik's Cube in the Steppes
        Bloc, National, and Ethnic Politics
        National and Frontier Priorities
        Autonomy as Rebellion

Chapter 8    Break the Vicious Circle along the Himalayas
        Reverse a Verdict
        Convert the Dalai Lama
        Reform Tibet, or Not
        "Let Them Go"

Part IV        From World War to Cold War

Chapter 9    The United States and Frontier China
        European and Asian "Minorities"
        "Chinese Unification"
        China's "Three Corners"
        Politics of "Color" and "Shape"

Chapter 10    Mongolia between Beijing and Moscow
        From Party to State
        Old and New "Kitchen"
        American Wedge
        Mongolian Crack

Chapter 11    Cold and Hot Wars along the Himalayas
        Second Cold War Front
        Covert Operations
        From Friends to Foes
        From Comrades to Adversaries

Epilogue    Search for a Frontier Theme 

Bibliography
Index