The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)

From: Pacific Affairs | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Blum, Susan D. | Copyright information

THE MONGOLS AT CHINA'S EDGE: History and the Politics of National Unity. By Uradyn E. Bulag. Lanham (Maryland), Boulder (Colorado), New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2002. xi, 271 pp. (Photos, illustrations, maps.) US$34.95, paper. ISBN 0-7425-1144-8.

In The Mongols at China's Edge, Uradyn Bulag addresses political, historical and national aspects of the shifting Mongol-Chinese relationship in the context of twentieth-century debates about the Chin...

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