State Building in Cold War Asia

Auteur

Qingfei Yin is Assistant Professor of International History (China and the World) at the London School of Economics.

Texte du rabat

Departing from conventional studies of border confrontation and weaving together international, national, and transnational-local histories, Yin presents a new approach to Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War, centering on the revolutionary states' competitive and collaborative state building on the borderlands and local responses to it.

Contenu

Introduction: internationalism, nationalism, and transnational localism at the Sino-Vietnamese border; 1. Asymmetric state building (1949-1954); 2. Joint state building (1954-1957); 3. Negotiated state building (1958-1964); 4. Thwarted state building on the sea (1954-1964); 5. Reversed state building (1965-1975); Conclusion: Cold War Asia: a borderlands perspective; Bibliography.