Collaborative nationalism : the politics of friendship on China's Mongolian frontier / Uradyn E. Bulag.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: triangulating China's ethnopolitics -- Hunting Chinggis Khan's skull and soul -- Lamas to the rescue : Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and imperial nationalisms -- Friendship, treason, and collaborative nationalism -- Yearning for friendship : the political in minority revolutionary history -- The flight of the golden pony : socialism and the stillbirth of the Mongolian working class -- Interethnic adoption and the regime of affection -- Conclusion: the specter of interethnic friendship.

Cosmopolitanism and friendship have become key themes for understanding ethnicity and nationalism. In this deeply original study of the Mongols, leading scholar Uradyn E. Bulag draws on these themes to develop a new concept he terms "collaborative nationalism." He uses this concept to explore the paradoxical dilemma of minorities in China as they fight not against being excluded but against being embraced too tightly in the bonds of "friendship." Going beyond traditional binary relationships, he offers aunique triangular perspective that illuminates the complexity of regional interaction. Th.