China as a victim rather than a proponent of modern colonialism is an essential myth that
animates Chinese nationalism. The Chinese statist project of occupying, minoritizing and …

For over half a century, a border zone mandated by bilateral treaty has existed along the full
length of the international border between Nepal and China's Tibetan Autonomous Region …

China's foreign policy has been long committed to a principle of noninterference in the
internal affairs of sovereign countries. While one could easily point out past and present-day …

The recent debates within and beyond Marxism around empire and imperialism focus on
deterritorialization, but fail to see non-Western states as anything other than collaborators or …

" Islamic Shangri-La transports readers into the heart of the Himalayas by tracing the rise of
the Tibetan Muslim (Khache) community from the early 17th century to the present. Over the …

This article examines Mao Zedong's theory of new democracy in order to explicate the
relationship between minority nationalities and sovereignty within the state system of the …

This new political history of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire explains why
Orthodoxy became the subject of acute political competition between the Great Powers …

Taking document analysis as its method, this paper examines the Tibetans' response to the
Chinese state nationalism. Due to the fear of political secession, the Chinese government …

The concept of semi-sovereignty, a now obsolete category of international entities
possessing limited sovereignty, remains hazily understood. However, the historical …

This dissertation research, funded by International Dissertation Research Fellowship from
Social Science Research Council, investigates how a group of people, who continues to …