[Book seminar] Book presentation: Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies, Afterlives. Ed. Anastas Vangeli and Dragan Pavlićević (Routledge 2025)(Yugolab)
The book “Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies and Afterlives” (Routledge, 2025) explores the connections between Yugoslavia and China, examining their historical context as well as their significance and influence today. Drawing extensively on primary sources, the studies in the book offer multidisciplinary perspectives on the development of Sino-Yugoslav relations in some key domains, as well as on their lesser-known aspects. The book also analyzes their impact in a contemporary context, including on the developmental trajectory of China and the post-Yugoslav states, as well as on their mutual relations. As such, this collection of papers contributes to the understanding of Sino-(post)Yugoslav relations, and indeed to the global history of socialist and post-socialist transformations, as well as contemporary trends in the post-Yugoslav space and China.
The book is discussed by editors Dragan Pavlićević and Anastas Vangeli, as well as Jovan Čavoški (Institute for Recent History of Serbia), Jelena Gledić (Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Philology), and Dejan Bursać (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory). The moderator is Aleksandar Pavlović.
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 Pavlićević 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).