The Politics of Persistence
China’s Border Government and Aid to the Communist Party of Burma, 1969–1989
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 7472198 |
|---|---|
| Autores | X Peng (0000-0003-1635-3743, University of London, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2026 |
| Volumen | 50 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 197-217 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2026-01-02 |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Asian Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10357823.2025.2575054 |
| OpenAlex | W4415938546 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 33 |
This article re-examines China’s support for the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) through the historical perspective of both Chinese governments in the centre and subnational governments in the borderlands. Departing from previous interpretations that prioritise state-to-state dynamics, this study explores why the CPB endured despite the reduction of China’s official aid from the mid-1970s onwards. It highlights a significant temporal disconnect between the Chinese central government’s policies and the actions of its border government, creating ambiguity over whether to sustain, modify, or terminate support for the CPB. Drawing on multiple sources, primarily archival materials from the Yunnan Border Foreign Affairs Office, this research identifies two distinct phases of Chinese aid. From 1969 to the mid-1970s, Yunnan border counties strongly supported the CPB. However, from the mid-1970s to the 1980s, these counties adopted a pragmatic approach, marked by depoliticisation and demilitarisation, integrating CPB issues into a broader framework of border management. In response, the CPB relied on the border economy as a survival channel and leveraged border mobility regulations to maintain access to Yunnan. By examining the nonlinear temporal relationship between the central and border governments, this study reveals how informal borderland networks have historically sustained armed ethnic groups
Entangled Histories
Borderland's theory in indigenous ethnic community archiving
Borderland historiography in Pakistan
China-Burma Geopolitical Relations in the Cold War
Depoliticisation
Culture, Class, and Revolution in China's Turbulent Decade
New Labour and the Politics of Depoliticisation
Construction and Contestation
Communist China's Economic Relations with Africa 1960-1964
China and Southeast Asian Communist Movements
Burma
Communist China's Aid Diplomacy
China-Burma Relations since the Rift
Burma-China Relations
Myanmar’s Internal Ethnic Conflicts and Their Implications for China’s Regional Grand Strategy
Geopolitics, Ethnic Conflicts along the Border, and Chinese Foreign Policy Changes toward Myanmar
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB)
China's Borderlands
The Difference Genealogy Makes
The complex temporality of borders
The Kokang incident and the contradictory relations between China and Burma
Toward a Comparative History of Borderlands
Chinese war in Southeast Asia's Frontier
On Borderlands
Pretending to be States
History and policy of the communist party of Thailand
Across Archival Limits
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