Prologue
1 John W. Garver, “China’s Decision for War with
India in 1962,” in Alastair Iaian Johnston and Robert S. Ross,
eds., New Directions in the Study of China’s
Foreign Policy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006),
116, citing Sun Shao and Chen Zibin, Ximalaya
shan de xue: Zhong Yin zhanzheng shilu [Snows of the Himalaya Mountains: The True Record of the
China-India War] (Taiyuan: Bei Yue Wenyi Chubanshe, 1991),
95; Wang Hongwei, Ximalaya shan qingjie: Zhong
Yin guanxi yanjiu [The Himalayas
Sentiment: A Study of China-India Relations] (Beijing:
Zhongguo Zangxue Chubanshe, 1998), 228–30.
2 Huaxia and
Zhonghua, other common appellations for
China, have no precise English meaning, but carry similar
connotations of a great and central civilization.