Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Part I: A Territorial Perception of Modern China -- Chapter One: Modern Transformation of Chinese Territoriality -- Territoriality -- Historical China -- Sovereignty -- Transformation -- Chapter Two: China's Central Asian Identity -- Chinese Nationalism -- Frontier Nationalism -- Failure of Containment -- Part II: Chinese Nationalist Experiences -- Chapter Three: Resume China's Korean Connection -- Illusive Greatness -- Abortive Partnership -- Elusive Contingencies -- Chapter Four: Recast China's Role in Vietnam -- "Big Brother" -- Options -- Drifting -- Chapter Five: Reassert Chinese Authority in a Frontier -- "Mongolian Question" -- "International Conspiracy" -- "Restoration" -- Part III: Chinese Communist Ethnopolitics -- Chapter Six: "National Question" with Chinese Characteristics -- Bolshevism in China -- Revolutionary Independence -- Interethnic Contact -- Two Wings of Nationalism -- Chapter Seven: Solve Rubik's Cube in the Steppes -- Bloc, National, and Ethnic Politics -- National and Frontier Priorities -- Autonomy as Rebellion -- Chapter Eight: 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 Nine: The United States and Frontier China -- European and Asian "Minorities" -- "Chinese Unification" -- China's "Three Corners" -- Politics of "Color" and "Shape" -- Chapter Ten: Mongolia between Beijing and Moscow -- From Party to State -- Old and New "Kitchen" -- American Wedge -- Mongolian Crack -- Chapter Eleven: 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L.

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