Border Crisis And Academia :study On China-uk-yunnan-myanmar Border Issue During The Republic Of China Period

On October 1st,1960,the government of the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Myanmar signed the Boundary Treaty between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of the Union of Myanmar,bringing to a successful conclusion the dispute over the boundary between China,Britain and Myanmar that had lasted for more than 70 years.After the British army annexed the whole Burma in 1885,After the signing of the Boundary Treaty between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of the Union of Myanmar between the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China until 1960,the boundary issue between China and Myanmar was finally settled satisfactorily.After the fall of Burma,people of insight in the Qing Dynasty began to pay attention to the border issues between Burma and Yunnan.In the process of China and British negotiations on the boundary between Yunnan and Burma in the Qing Dynasty,XueFuCheng’s the demarcation map between Yunnan and Myanmar and Yao Wendong’s the border investigation in Yunnan were the first academic works to record the boundary between China,Britain and Burma.At the beginning of the Republic of China,the political system and social organization have changed,and the border problem of China,British and Burma entered a new stage.A large number of scholars of the Republic of China,who were nourished by traditional Chinese thoughts and influenced by the theories and methods of modern bourgeois historiography,felt the seriousness of the boundary affairs crisis and hoped to express their patriotic enthusiasm through the study of boundary affairs,promoting the stability of the border areas of the motherland.The study of China-British-Yunnan-Myanmar border issues in the Republic of China period is characterized by two aspects: first,saving the nation from subjugation and preserving the country which is the main aim of the study;Second,academic groups,periodicals and organizations involved in the study of boundary issues have mushroomed.This paper takes scholars from the Republic of China as the object to study the China-British-Myanmar boundary issues.On the one hand,it is based on the variability and complexity of the China-British-Myanmar boundary issues in the period of the Republic of China.On the other hand,it is based on the extensive research of scholars in the Republic of China.By reading the works,papers and reports of the scholars of the Republic of China on the boundary between China,Britain and Burma,from the perspective of academic history,this paper analyzes his basic views on the changes of the border between Yunnan and Burma,the undermined boundary of northern and southern section between Yunnan and Burma,the PianMa Event,the JiangXinPo Event and the BanHong Event,this paper sums up the similarities and differences of its guiding ideology,research methods,research contents and results,and makes an in-depth analysis of the representative scholars,journals and groups,comprehensively expounds its thoughts and combs its value.The classic theory in the Study of the Boundary Problem Between China,Britain,Yunnan and Burma by the scholars of the Republic of China still has the function of the morning bell and the evening drum.