Articles related to the history of the Chinese Territory 1500-1950

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Modern Chinese History: A Basic Bibliography http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/bibtoc.html This bibliography is meant to provide a quick reference for scholars and students working in the field of modern Chinese history. While by no means exhaustive, it represents what we feel are some of the best works in the field for each particular subject. It was most recently updated in July, 2001. Comments, suggestions, and additions to the bibliography are welcome.

ATTWOD Christopher P. 2000 "'Worshiping grace': the language of loyalty in Qing Mongolia" Late Imperial China 21.2 : 86-139

ATWOOD Christopher P. 2000 "Inner Mongolian nationalism in the 1920s: a survey of documentary information" Twentieth-Century China 25.2 : 75-113

ATWOOD Christopher P. 1999 "Sino-Soviet Diplomacy and the Second Partition of Mongolia, 1945–1946" in KOTKIN Stephen & Bruce A. ELLEMAN eds. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe pp. 137-162

BATBAYAR Ts. 1999 "Mongolia and Japan in 1945–1995: A Half Century Reconsidered" in KOTKIN Stephen & Bruce A. ELLEMAN eds. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe pp. 163-182

BECQUELIN Nicolas 2000 "Xinjiang in the nineties" China Journal 44 : 65-90

BOIKOVA Elena 1999 "Aspects of Soviet-Mongolian Relations, 1929–1939" in KOTKIN Stephen & Bruce A. ELLEMAN eds. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe pp. 107-122

BOLDBAATAR J. 1999 "The Eight-hundredth Anniversary of Chinggis Khan: The Revival and Suppression of Mongolian National Consciousness" in KOTKIN Stephen & Bruce A. ELLEMAN eds. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe pp. 237-246

BORCHERT Thomas 2008 "Worry for the Dai Nation: Sipsongpanna, Chinese Modernity, and the Problems of Buddhist Modernism" Journal of Asian Studies 67.1 : 107-142

BORCHIGUD Wurlig 2002 "Between Chinese nationalism and Soviet colonisation: a Chinese Orientalist's narration of Inner and Outer Mongolia (1926-1927)" Inner Asia 4.1 : 27-46

BOVINGDON Gardner 2001 "The history of the history of Xinjiang" Twentieth-Century China 26.2 : 95-139

BOYD James 2002 "In pursuit of an obsession: Japan in Inner Mongolia in the 1930s" Japanese Studies 22.3 : 289-303

BROOK Timothy 2007 "What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border?" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 74-90

BULAG Uradyn E. 2006 "Going imperial: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and nationalism in China and Inner Asia" ESHERICK Joseph W. & Hasan KAYALI & Eric van YOUNG eds. Empire to nation historical perspectives on the making of the modern world Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield pp: 260-295

BULAG Uradyn Erden 1998 "The cult of Ulanhu in Inner Mongolia: History, memory, and the making of national heroes" Central Asian Survey 17.1 : 11-33

BUTTERS Albion M. "The rise and fall of early Tibetan-Mongol relations" fil

CHAN K.C. 1977 "The abrogation of British extraterritorialitet in China 1942-43: A study of Anglo-Chinese relations" Modern Asian Studies 2.2 : 257-291

CHAN Wing-hoi 2006 "Ethnic Labels in a Mountainous Region: The Case of She 'Bandits'" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

CHEN Jian 2007 "The Chinese Communist "Liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51" in BROWN Jeremy & Paul G. PICKOWICS eds. Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press pp. 130-159

CHRISTOFFERSEN Gaye 1993 "Xinjiang and the great Islamic circle: the impact of transnational forces on Chinese regional economic planning" China Quarterly 133 : 130-151

CLARKE Michael 2008 "'Stepping from Stone to Stone in a Stream': The Continuity of Integration in the Chinese State's Approach to Xinjiang, 1759-2005" Journal of Asian Studies, (In press, 2007).

CROSSLEY Pamela 2006 "Making Mongols" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

CSETE Anne 2006 "Ethnicity, Conflict, and the State in the Early to Mid-Qing: The Hainan Highlands, 1644–1800" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

DABRINGHAUS Sabine 1997 "Chinese Emperors, Tibetan Monks: Religion as an Instrument of Rule" IN DABRINGHAUS Sabine & Roderich PTAK China and her Neighbours: Borders, Visions of the Other, Foreign Policy, 10th to 19th Century Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag pp. 119-134.

DICKENS Mark 1988 "The Soviets in Xinjiang 1911-1949" http://www.oxuscom.com/sovinxj.htm

DiCOSMO Nicola 2007 "Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early Seventeenth Century" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 57-73

ELLEMAN Bruce A. 1999 "The Final Consolidation of the USSR's Sphere of Interest in Outer Mongolia" in KOTKIN Stephen & Bruce A. ELLEMAN eds. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe pp. 123-136

ELLIOTT Mark C. 2006 "Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

ELMAN Benjamin A. 2007 "Ming-Qing Border Defence, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 29-56

ENDICOTT Elizabeth 1999 "Russian Merchants in Mongolia: The 1910 Moscow Trade Expedition" in KOTKIN Stephen & Bruce A. ELLEMAN eds. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe pp. 59-68

ESHERICK Joseph W. 1994 "Deconstructing the construction of the party-state: Gulin County in the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region" China Quarterly 140 : 1052-1079

FAURE David 2006 "The Yao Wars in the Mid-Ming and their Impact on Yao Ethnicity" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

FISHER Carney T. 1988 "Smallpox, Salesmen, and Sectarians: Ming-Mongol Relations in the Jiajing (1522-67) Reign" Ming Studies 25 : 1-23

FUNG Edmund S.K. 1987 "The Chinese nationalists and the unequal treaties 1924-1932" Modern Asian Studies 21.4 : 793-819

GAO James Z. 2007 "The call of the oases: the "Peaceful Liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53" in BROWN Jeremy & Paul G. PICKOWICS eds. Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press pp. 184-204

GIERSCH C. Pat 2001 "'A motley throng': social change on southwest China's early modern frontier, 1700-1880" Journal of Asian Studies 60.1 : 67-94

GOLDSTEIN Melvyn C 1971 "Serfdom and mobility: an examination of the institution of "human lease" in traditional Tibetan society" Journal of Asian Studies 30.3 : 521-534

GOLDSTEIN Melvyn C 1973 "The circulation of estates in Tibet: reincarnation, land and politics" Journal of Asian Studies 32.3 : 445-455

GOLDSTEIN Melvyn C. & Cynthia M. BEALL 1991 "China's birth control policy in the Tibet autonomous region: myths and realities" Asian Survey 31.3 : 285-303

GOSCHA Christopher E. 2000 "The borders of Vietnam's early wartime trade with southern China: a contemporary perspective" Asian Survey 40.6 : 987-1018

GREATREX Roger 1997 "Tribute Missions from the Sichuan Borderlands to the Imperial Court (1400-1665)" Acta Orientalia 58 : 75-151

GREEN Elizabeth E. 1986 "China and Mongolia: recurring trends and prospects for change" Asian Survey 26.12 : 1337-1363

GRUNFELD A. Tom 1988 "Developments in Tibetan studies in China today" China Quarterly 115 : 462-466

GRUNFELD A. Tom 1980 "Some thoughts on the current state of Sino-Tibetan historiography. Reply by Dawa Norbu" China Quarterly 83 : 568-576; 576-579

HAN Suk-Jung 2005 From Pusan to Fengtian: The Borderline Between Korea and Manchukuo in the 1930s East Asian History 30 : 91-106

HARRIS Lillian Craig 1993 "Xinjiang Central Asia and the implications for China's policy in the Islamic world" China Quarterly 133 : 111-129

HERMAN John E. 2006 "The Cant of Conquest: Tusi Offices and China's Political Incorporation of the Southwest Frontier" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

HEUSCHERT Dorothea 1998 "Legal Pluralism in the Qing Empire: Manchu Legislation for the Mongols" International History Review 20.2 : 310-324

HO Peter 2000 "The myth of desertification at China's northwestern frontier: the case of Ningxia Province, 1929-1958" Modern China 26.3 : 348-395

HUANG Yasheng 1995 "China's cadre transfer policy toward Tibet in the 1980s" Modern China 21.2 : 184-204

ISRAEL Raphael 2002 "The cross battles the crescent: one century of missionary work among Chinese Muslims (1850-1950) [first published in Modern Asian Studies 29, no.1 (1995)]" in ISRAELI Raphael. Islam in China: religion, ethnicity, culture, and politics. Lanham MD: Lexington Books pp. 223-239

ISRAELI Raphael 1981 "The Muslim minority in the People's Republic of China" Asian Survey 21.8 : 901-919

JACOBS Justin 2008 "How Chinese Turkestan Became Chinese: Visualizing Zhang Zhizhong's Tianshan Pictorial and Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe" Journal of Asian Studies 67.2 : 545-591

KAPLONSKI Christopher 1998 "Creating national identity in socialist Mongolia" Central Asian Survey 17.1 : 35-49

KEITH Ronald C. 1979 "The relevance of border-region experience to nation-building in China, 1949-52" China Quarterly 78 : 274-295

KIM Won Bae 1994 "Sino-Russian relations and Chinese workers in the Russian Far East: a porous border" Asian Survey 34.12 : 1064-1076

LAFFEY Ella S. 1979 "Social dissidence and government suppression on the Sino-Vietnam frontier: the Black Flag Army in Tonkin" Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i 4.2 : 113-125

LAN Mei-hua 1999 "China's "New Administration" in Mongolia" in KOTKIN Stephen & Bruce A. ELLEMAN eds. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe pp. 39-68

LARY Diana 2007 "A Zone of Nebulous Menace: The Guangxi/Indochina Border in the Republican Period" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 181-197

LEIBOLD James P. 2003 "Rethinking Guomindang national minority policy and the case of Inner Mongolia" in: CHU Cindy Yik-Yi & MAK Ricardo K.S. eds. China reconstructs Lanham MD: University Press of America pp. 103-124

LI Narangoa 2003 "Japanese imperialism and Mongolian Buddhism, 1932-1945 [includes Inner Mongolia and Manchukuo]" Critical Asian Studies 35.4 : 491-514

LIN Hsiao-ting 2002 "The 1934 Chinese mission to Tibet: a re-examination" Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3-12.3 : 327-341

LIN Hsiao-ting 2006 "War or Stratagem? Reassessing China's Military Advance towards Tibet & 1942–1943" China Quarterly 186 : 446-462

LIN Hsiao-ting 2009 "War, Leadership and Ethnopolitics: Chiang Kai-shek and China's frontiers,

LIPMAN Jonathan N. 2006 "'A Fierce and Brutal People': On Islam and Muslims in Qing Law" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

LIU Xiaoyuan 1999 "The Kuomintang and the 'Mongolian Question' in the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949" Inner Asia 1,2 : 169-194

LUKIN Alexander 1998 "The image of China in Russian border regions" Asian Survey 38.9 : 821-835

MA Haiyun 2008 "Fanhui or Huifan? Hanhui or Huimin?: Salar Ethnic Identification and Qing Administrative Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Gansu" Late Imperial China 29.2 : 1-36

MA Rong 1991 "Han and Tibetan residential patterns in Lhasa" China Quarterly 128 : 814-835

MCMILLEN Donald H 1981 "Xinjiang and the Production and Construction Corps: a Han organisation in a non-Han region" Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 6 : 65-96

MCMILLEN Donald H. 1984 "Xinjiang and Wang Enmao: new directions in power, policy and integration?" China Quarterly 99 : 569-593

MEHRA Parshotam 1972 "A forgotten chapter in the history of the northeast frontier: 1914-36" Journal of Asian Studies 31.2 : 299-308

MILLWARD James A. 1996 "New perspectives on the Qing frontier" in HERSHATTER Gail et al. eds. Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press 53.2 : 427-458

MILLWARD James A. 1999 "'Coming onto the Map': 'Western Regions' Geography and Cartographic Nomenclature in the Making of Chinese Empire in Xinjiang" Late Imperial China 20.2 : 61-98

MILLWARD James A. 1994 "A Uyghur Muslim in Qianlong's court: the meanings of the Fragrant concubine" Journal of Asian Studies 53.2 : 427-458

MILLWARD James A. 2004 "The Qing formation, the Mongol legacy, and the "end of history" in early modern central Eurasia" STRUVE Lynn A. ed. The Qing formation in world-historical time Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center pp. 92-120

MILLWARD James A. & Laura J. NEWBY 2006 "The Qing and Islam on the Western Frontier" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

MIYAWAKI Junko 1984 "The Qalqa Mongols and the Oyirad in the Seventeenth-Century" Journal of Asian History 18 : 136.173

NGUYEN-MARSHALL Van 2007 "The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 162-180

NORBU Dawa 1979 "The 1959 Tibetan rebellion: an interpretation" China Quarterly 77 : 74-93

NORBU Dawa 1997 "Tibet in Sino-Indian relations: the centrality of marginality" Asian Survey 37.11 : 1078-1095

NOTAR Beth E. 2001 "Du Wenxiu and the politics of the Muslim past" Twentieth-Century China 26.2 : 63-94

OLIVOVA Lucie 2003 "Tibetan temples in the Forbidden City (an architectural introduction) [the major Tibean-Buddhist sanctuaries in Beijing Zhongzheng Dian, Yuhua Ge, Yinghua Dian, the Cining Gong garden, Fanhua Lou etc.]" Archiv Orientalni 71.3 : 409-432

PERDUE Peter C. 1996 "Military Mobilization in 17th and 18th century China, Russia, and Mongolia" Modern Asian Studies 30 : 757-793

PERDUE Peter C. 1998 "Boundaries, Maps, and Mobile People: The Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian Empires in Early Modern Central Eurasia" International History Review 20.2 : 263-286

PERDUE Peter C. 2007 "Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing Frontier Campaigns" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 105-125

RAHUL Ram 1978 "Mongolia between China and Russia" Asian Survey 18.7 : 659-665

SAMUEL Geoffrey 1982 "Tibet as a stateless society and some Islamic parallels" Journal of Asian Studies 41.2 : 215-229

SCHIMMELPENNINCK VAR DER OYE David 2000 "Russia's ambivalent response to the Boxers" Cahiers du Monde russe 41.1 : 57-78

SCHMID Andre 2007 "Tributary Relations and the Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 126-150

SCHUESSEL Eric T. 2007 "'Bilingual' education and discontent in Xinjiang" Central Asian Survey 26.2 : 251-277

SELDEN Mark 2009 "East Asian Regionalism and its Enemies in Three Epochs: Political Economy and Geopolitics, 16th to 21st Centuries" The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 2009-03-11 = http://japanfocus.org/articles/print_article/3061

SERRUYS Henry 1967 "Sino-Mongol Relations during the Ming. Vol. 3, Trade Relations; The Horse Fairs, 1400-1600" Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques :

SERRUYS Henry 1982 "Towers in the Northern Frontier Defenses of the Ming" Ming Studies 14 : 9-76

SHAO Dan 2005 Borderlanders Between Empire and Nation: Banner People in Early Twentieth-Century Manchuria - (Shao Dan) East Asian History 30 : 23-46

SHAO Dan & Ronald SULESKI 2005 "Manchuria as a Borderland: History, Culture and Identity in East Asia" East Asian History 30 : 1-4

SHIN Leo K. 2007 "Ming China and Its Border with Annam" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 91-104

SIU Helen F. & LIU Zhiwei 2006 "Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan: Ethnicity in the Pearl River Delta of South China" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

SNEATH David 2003 "Beyond the willow palisade: Manchuria and the history of China's Inner Asian frontier" Asian Affairs 34.1 : 3-11

SPERLING Elliot 1988 "The Szechwan-Tibet Frontier in the Fifteenth Century" Ming Studies 26 : 37-55

SPERLING Elliott 1998 "Awa and Submission: A Tibetan Aristocrat at the Court of Qianlong" International History Review 20.2 : 325-335

SUTTON Donald S. 2006 "Ethnicity and the Miao Frontier in the Eighteenth Century" in CROSSLEY Pamela Kyle & Helen F. SIU & Donald S. SUTTON Empire at the Margins. Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China Berkeley CA: University of California Press :

SUZUKI Chusei 1968 "China's relations with Inner Asia: The Hsiung-nu, Tibet" in FAIRBANK J.K.ed The Chinese World Order: Traditional China's Foreign Relations pp.180-197

TATSUO Nakami 1999 "Russian Diplomats and Mongol Independence, 1911–1915" in KOTKIN Stephen & Bruce A. ELLEMAN eds. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe pp. 69-78

TSYREMPILOV Nikolay 2006 "Dge lugs pa Divided: Some aspects of the political role og Tibetan Buddhism in the espansion of the Qing dynasty" IN CUEVAS Bryan J. & Kurtis R. SCHAEFFER eds. Power, politics, and the reinvention of tradition: Tibet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Leiden: Brill = Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies pp: 47-64

TUTTLE Gray 2006 "A Tibetan Buddhist mission to the east: The Fifth Dalai Lama's journey to Beijing, 1652-1653" IN CUEVAS Bryan J. & Kurtis R. SCHAEFFER eds. Power, politics, and the reinvention of tradition: Tibet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Leiden: Brill = Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies pp: 65-87

UNDERDOWN Michael 1979 "The Chinese Revolution and Inner Mongolia" Papers on Far Eastern History 19 : 203-221

UNDERDOWN Michael 1989 "De Wang's independent Mongolian Republic" Papers on Far Eastern History 40 : 123-132

UNDERDOWN Michael 1977 Mongolian anrainers: Uriyangqai, Buryatia and Bar?a --- ANU seminar

VERMEER Eduard B. 1998 "Population and Ecology along the Frontier in Qing China" in ELVIN Mark & Ts'ui-jung LIU eds. Sediments of Time. Environment and Society in Chinese History Cambridge: UP pp. 235-282

VERMEER Eduard B. 1998 "Population and Ecology along the Frontier in Qing China" in ELVIN Mark & Ts'ui-jung LIU eds. Sediments of Time. Environment and Society in Chinese History Cambridge: UP pp. 235-282

WALEY-COHEN Joanna 1989 "Banishment to Xinjiang in Mid-Qing China, 1758-1820" Late Imperial China 10.2 : 44-71

WANG Chen-main 1985 "The Ch'ing Dynasty and its Influence and Effect on Mongolia" Chinese Culture 26.2 : 73-81

WANG David D. 1996 "The two administrations in Xinjiang"

WAUGH Daniel C. 2007 "The making of Chinese Central Asia" Central Asian Survey 26.2 : 235 - 250

WOMACK Brantly 2000 "International relationships at the border of China and Vietnam: an introduction" Asian Survey 40.6 : 981-986

WONG Young-tsu 1981 "Security and Warfare on the China Coast: The Taiwan Question in the Seventeenth Century" Monumenta Serica 35 : 111-196

WOODSIDE Alexander 2007 "The Centre and the Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 11-28

WYLIE Turrell V. 1977 "The First Mongol Conquest of Tibet Reinterpreted" Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 37.1 : 103-133

YAN Yunxiang 2000 "The fate of Tibet [review essay]" China Journal 43 : 133-140

YANG Yun-yuan 1987 "Controversies over Tibet: China versus India, 1947-49" China Quarterly 111 : 407-420

YEH Emily T. 2000 "Forest claims, conflicts and commodification: the political ecology of Tibetan mushroom-harvesting villages in Yunnan Province, China" China Quarterly 161 : 264-278

ZATSEPINE Victor 2007 "The Amur: As River, as Border" in LARY Diana ed. Chinese State at the Borders Vancouver: UBC Press pp. 151-161

ZHAO Zhenbei 1998 "A new appraisal of democratic reform in the pastoral zone of Inner Mongolia in the 1940s" Central Asian Survey 17.1 : 109-137