{"id":56181,"date":"2026-11-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=56181"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:39:09","slug":"yugoslavia-and-china-histories-legacies-afterlives-ur-anastas-vangeli-dragan-pavlicevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=56181","title":{"rendered":"\u201eYugoslavia and China. Histories, Legacies, Afterlives\u201c, ur. Anastas Vangeli &amp; Dragan Pavli\u0107evi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u2019s and China\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table of Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Re-thinking Yugo-Chinese Relations Past and Present<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dragan Pavli\u0107evi\u0107 and Anastas Vangeli<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Part I. Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. Sino-Yugoslav Relations and the Global Cold War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jovan \u010cavo\u0161ki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Nansilafu in the Chinese World-building<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ivica Bakota<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Part II. Evolution of Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Key Junctures in Sino-Yugoslav Relations: 1948, 1958, and 1968<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zvonimir Stopi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Yugoslavia and China\u2019s Early Reform Period (1977<\/strong>\u2013<strong>1980)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dragan Pavli\u0107evi\u0107 and Vladimir Mili\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5. Self-Determination, Centralisation, and Sovereignty: What The Chinese Communist Party&nbsp;of China Learned from Yugoslavia\u2019s Dissolution?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federico Brusadelli<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6. The Legacy of China-Yugoslavia Relations and its Impact on China\u2019s Ties with Successor States<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peng Yuchao and Xu Gang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Part III. Socio-Cultural Encounters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7. Through Mistrust, Resistance, and \u2018Spring Tide\u2019: A Brief History of Sino-Yugoslav Cultural Cooperation in the 1950s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jovana Bogojevi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8. Local-level Sino-Yugoslav Exchanges from 1977 to 1985: Insights from Shanghai\u2019s Municipal Archives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zhou Yuguang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9. Sino-Yugoslav Friendship and Contemporary Chinese tourism: Perspectives from Online Chinese Travelogues and Local Tourism Operators<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicole Talmacs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Part IV. Legacy Ventures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10. Narratives of the Sino-Yugoslav Past in Discourses on the Contemporary Sino-Serbian \u201cIronclad Friendship\u201d: the Rise of Sino-Yugo-nostalgia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jelena Gledi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>11. Never too Late? Bor\u2019s Transformation and the Quest for Sustainability of Sino-Serbian \u201cCopper Friendship\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ren Canying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12. The Internationalisation of Socialist enterprises: Convergent Legacies, Divergent Developments and (Un)surprising Encounters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Igor Rogelja and Martina Bofulin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reflection: From Pericentricity towards Possibilism: Legacies, Afterlives and&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>Alterlives&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong>of Yugo-Chinese Normative Encounters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anastas Vangeli<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anastas Vangeli<\/strong>&nbsp;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&nbsp;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&nbsp;<em>Asia Europe Journal<\/em>&nbsp;and editor of&nbsp;<em>The Role of China in Southeast Europe<\/em>&nbsp;(2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dragan Pavli\u0107evi\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;is an associate professor at the Department of China Studies at Xi&#8217;an Jiaotong &#8211; Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He is the author of&nbsp;<em>Public Participation and State Building in China: Case Studies from Zhejiang<\/em>&nbsp;(Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of&nbsp;<em>The China Question: Contestations and Adaptation<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuity in the \u201cNew Era\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;(Routledge, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in October 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 9781032767888<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">336p<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odjeci:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/historija-u-javnosti\/dogadjaji\/promocija-knjige-o-odnosima-jugoslavije-i-kine\">https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/historija-u-javnosti\/dogadjaji\/promocija-knjige-o-odnosima-jugoslavije-i-kine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Izvori: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Yugoslavia-and-China-Histories-Legacies-Afterlives\/Vangeli-Pavlicevic\/p\/book\/9781032767888\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Yugoslavia-and-China-Histories-Legacies-Afterlives\/Vangeli-Pavlicevic\/p\/book\/9781032767888<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Yugoslavia-and-China.webp?fit=350%2C535&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54121,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54121","url_meta":{"origin":56181,"position":0},"title":"ZGODOVINA NA \u0160PICI: YUGOSLAVIA AND CAMBODIA: ENTANGLED HISTORIES OF NON-ALIGNMENT","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"16. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . 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