„Yugoslavia and China. Histories, Legacies, Afterlives“, ur. Anastas Vangeli & Dragan Pavlićević
This book explores the historical relationship between Yugoslavia and China, examining its features, significance, and reverberations today. Studying a wide array of state-to-state and society-to-society connections and interactions, it provides novel perspectives on Yugoslavia’s and China’s intertwined trajectories and relations. Drawing from a rich array of primary sources and multidisciplinary approaches, the contributors shed light on the key events, major developments, and important aspects of the Sino-Yugoslav relationship and analyse contemporary relations between China and the Yugoslav successor states. The volume offers a timely intervention in the global history of the Cold War, area studies of Southeast Europe and of China, and studies of socialist and post-socialist transformations.
Table of Contents:
Re-thinking Yugo-Chinese Relations Past and Present
Dragan Pavlićević and Anastas Vangeli
Part I. Context
1. Sino-Yugoslav Relations and the Global Cold War
Jovan Čavoški
2. Nansilafu in the Chinese World-building
Ivica Bakota
Part II. Evolution of Relations
3. Key Junctures in Sino-Yugoslav Relations: 1948, 1958, and 1968
Zvonimir Stopić
4. Yugoslavia and China’s Early Reform Period (1977–1980)
Dragan Pavlićević and Vladimir Milić
5. Self-Determination, Centralisation, and Sovereignty: What The Chinese Communist Party of China Learned from Yugoslavia’s Dissolution?
Federico Brusadelli
6. The Legacy of China-Yugoslavia Relations and its Impact on China’s Ties with Successor States
Peng Yuchao and Xu Gang
Part III. Socio-Cultural Encounters
7. Through Mistrust, Resistance, and ‘Spring Tide’: A Brief History of Sino-Yugoslav Cultural Cooperation in the 1950s
Jovana Bogojević
8. Local-level Sino-Yugoslav Exchanges from 1977 to 1985: Insights from Shanghai’s Municipal Archives
Zhou Yuguang
9. Sino-Yugoslav Friendship and Contemporary Chinese tourism: Perspectives from Online Chinese Travelogues and Local Tourism Operators
Nicole Talmacs
Part IV. Legacy Ventures
10. Narratives of the Sino-Yugoslav Past in Discourses on the Contemporary Sino-Serbian “Ironclad Friendship”: the Rise of Sino-Yugo-nostalgia
Jelena Gledić
11. Never too Late? Bor’s Transformation and the Quest for Sustainability of Sino-Serbian “Copper Friendship”
Ren Canying
12. The Internationalisation of Socialist enterprises: Convergent Legacies, Divergent Developments and (Un)surprising Encounters
Igor Rogelja and Martina Bofulin
Reflection: From Pericentricity towards Possibilism: Legacies, Afterlives and Alterlives of Yugo-Chinese Normative Encounters
Anastas Vangeli
Anastas Vangeli is an assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business in Slovenia. He is also a non-resident senior fellow with the TOChina Hub, Turin, Italy; a research fellow at the ESSCA EU-Asia Institute, Angers, France; a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia; and member of the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC). He is an associate editor of Asia Europe Journal and editor of The Role of China in Southeast Europe (2022).
Dragan Pavlićević is an associate professor at the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He is the author of Public Participation and State Building in China: Case Studies from Zhejiang (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of The China Question: Contestations and Adaptation and Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuity in the “New Era” (Routledge, 2020).
Published in October 2023
ISBN 9781032767888
336p