Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps, Tables, Photographs vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Prologue 3
7. The Setting
8. A Localized Regime, National Image, and Territorial Fragmentation 19
9. Professed Frontier Policy, Policy Planners, and Imagined Sovereignty 31
10. The Prewar Decade, 1928-37
11. The Unquiet Southwestern Borderlands 51
12. The Mission to Tibet 71
13. “Commissioner” Politics 86
14. The Wartime Period, 1938-45
15. Building a Nationalist-Controlled State in Southwest China 107
16. The Issue of the China-India Roadway via Tibet 122
17. Rhetoric, Reality, and Wartime China’s Tibetan Concerns 139
18. The Postwar Period, 1945-49
19. Postwar Frontier Planning vis-à-vis non-Han Separatist Movements 159
20. The Sera Monastery Incident 182
21. Epilogue 199
22. Notes 206
23. Glossary of Names and Terms 254
24. Bibliography 257
25. Index 270