Sumit Ganguly
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Keywords: Sino-Indian War of 1962, “Look East” policy, Himalayan states, Tibet, Mao-Tse-Tung, Mao Zedong, Jawaharlal Nehru, “forward policy”
DOI: 10.5509/2018923539
SHADOW STATES: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962. By Bérénice Guyot-Réchard. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xxv, 321 pp. (Maps, illustrations.) US$99.99, cloth. ISBN 978-1-107-17679-9.
INDIA TURNS EAST: International Engagement and US-China Rivalry. By Frédéric Grare. London, UK: C. Hurst & Company, 2017. ix, 265 pp. £30.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1-84904-835-4.
MUSLIM, TRADER, NOMAD, SPY: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands. By Sulmaan Wasif Khan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. 216 pp. (Maps.) US$27.50, paper. ISBN 978-1-4696-3075-5.
CHINA’S INDIA WAR: Collision Course on the Roof of the World. By Bertil Lintner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. US$34.95, cloth. ISBN 978-0-19-947555-1.
These four books on Sino-Indian relations provide new evidence and novel arguments about the origins of the border dispute, the Sino-Indian border war of 1962 and the evolution of the Sino-Indian rivalry. Three of the four books have made use of newly declassified archival material and have thereby challenged existing knowledge about various features of this contentious relationship. The books, nevertheless, are of varying quality. One or two of them represent the acme of dispassionate scholarship while at least one asserts some very partisan claims. That said, they all represent a new wave of scholarship on Sino-Indian relations and should be of value to those interested in this fraught relationship.
争议的边界、武装冲突、周期性的危机和地区性对抗：中印关系的过去与未来
关键词： 1962年中印战争；“东望”政策，喜马拉雅地区的国家；西藏；毛泽东；贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁，”前进政策”
这四本关于中印关系的著作就中印边界冲突的源起、1962年边界战争以及中印对抗关系的演进等提供了新的证据和论点。 其中三本著作利用了新近解密的档案材料，因此挑战了对这个充满争端的关系的若干特征的现有认识。尽管如此，这四部著作却也质量不一。其中一到两本代表了中立学术的极致，而至少有一本则发表了一些非常偏颇的看法。虽然如此，它们还是全都代表了中印关系学术研究的一个新浪潮，对于关注这一令人忧虑的关系的人们来说应该很有价值
Translated from English by Li Guo
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