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Xinjiang in Postwar China’s Frontier Politics, 1945-1949: A Reassessment
Li WANG
Abstract
This study will demonstrate that, as early as the end of the Sino-Japanese war in summer 1945, both Han and
non-Han Chinese bureaucrats who dominated China’s northwest were already undertaking political activities
of their own, relatively independently of intervention by the Nationalist central government. In other words,
during the initial stages of the postwar interregnum, an ostensibly “KMT-ruled” Xinjiang province was
behaving not unlike other Chinese ethnic frontier regions, such as Outer Mongolia and Tibet. The Nationalist
leaders in the northwest borderlands, like their Tibetan and Mongolian counterparts, appeared to be
following their own independent policy line, a line that might eventually have led them away from the
political, diplomatic and military orbit of metropolitan Nationalist China. Postwar China’s Central Asian
political landscape was thus more intriguing and complicated than one might imagine.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30845/ijhss.vol15p11
Article History:
Received: 30 March 2025 | Accepted: 24 April
2025 | Published: 28 April 2025
Reviewer(s):
Oluwakemisola Omolola Adeusi, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305, United States; ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7529-3627.
Email: [email protected] Dr. Muhammad Aslam, Government Ghazali College and Post Graduate Center Latifabad No:11, Hyderabad, College Education Department, Government of Sindh, Pakistan; Phone: +92 333 750 2178.
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected] Dr. Muhammad Aslam, Government Ghazali College and Post Graduate Center Latifabad No:11, Hyderabad, College Education Department, Government of Sindh, Pakistan; Phone: +92 333 750 2178.
Email: [email protected]
Address for Correspondence:
Li WANG, School of Marxism, University of Shanghai for Science and
Technology No.334 Jungong Rd, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China, 200093.
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