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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.
List of contents
1. Dragan Pavli¿evi¿ and Anastas Vangeli, Introduction: Histories, Legacies and Afterlives of
Sino-Yugoslav Relations
2. Jovan ¿avoški, Sino-Yugoslav Relations and the Global Cold War
3. Zvonimir Stopi¿, Key Junctures in Sino-Yugoslav Relations: 1948, 1958 and 1968
4. Ivica Bakota, Nansilafu (China`s Yugoslavia): Liminal, maieutic and de-historicizing features
in the Chinese world-building
5. Jovana Bogojevi¿, Through Mistrust, Resistance, and 'Spring Tide': A Brief History of SinoYugoslav Cultural Cooperation in the 1950s
6. Dragan Pavli¿evi¿ Vladimir Mili¿, and Sanja Radovi¿, Learning from Abroad: Yugoslavia and
the Roots of China's Transformation from 1978 to 1980
7. Zhou Yuguang, Local-level Sino-Yugoslav Exchanges from 1977 to 1985
8. Federico Brusadelli, Diversity, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty: the Chinese Communist
Party and the "Cautionary Tales" from Yugoslavia
9. Xu Gang, The Legacy of China-Yugoslavia Relations and its Impact on the Ties between China
and Successor States of Yugoslavia
10. Anastas Vangeli, Trajche Panov, and Richard Turcsanyi, Memories of Yugoslavia and Current
Sino-Balkan Relations
11. Jelena Gledi¿, Uses of the narratives of the Sino-Yugoslav past in discourses on the
contemporary Sino-Serbian Iron Friendship"
12. Igor Rogelja and Martina Bofulin, Ending the socialist dream in Gorenje? Field notes about a
Chinese takeover
13. Nicole Talmacs, Sino-Yugoslav Friendship and contemporary Chinese tourism: Perspectives
from online Chinese travelogues and local tourism operators
14. Anastas Vangeli and Dragan Pavli¿evi¿, Conclusion
About the author
Anastas Vangeli is Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the ESSCA EU-Asia Institute, Angers; a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, Skopje; and member of the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC). He is Associate Editor of
Asia Europe Journal and editor of
The Role of China in Southeast Europe (2022).
Dragan Pavli¿evi¿ is 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).
