1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778117903321

Autore

Goldstein Melvyn C

Titolo

A history of modern Tibet . Volume 2 The calm before the storm, 1951-1955 [[electronic resource] /] / Melvyn C. Goldstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-75952-3

9786612759529

0-520-93332-X

1-4356-0195-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxx, 639 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

GoldsteinMelvyn C

Disciplina

951.5055

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / General

Tibet Autonomous Region (China) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Continues: A history of modern Tibet, 1913-1951 : the demise of the Lamaist state / Melvyn C. Goldstein ; with the help of Gelek Rimpoche.

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Preliminary page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Note on Romanization -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary of Key Persons and Terms -- Introduction: Tibetan Society on the Eve of Incorporation into China -- The Road to a Sino-Tibetan Agreement -- The First Two Years Confrontation and Adjustment -- Cooperation and Change -- ; Appendix A. Lobsang Samden's 1952 Letter to Tsipön Shakabpa -- ; Appendix B. Kashag's 1953 Edict Reforming Debts in Tibet -- ; Appendix C. Agreement of the Secret Resistance Organization in India, 1954 -- ; Appendix D. List of Correct Tibetan Spellings.

Sommario/riassunto

It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened-and why-during the 1950's. In a book that continues the story of Tibet's history that he began in his acclaimed A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, Melvyn C. Goldstein critically revises our understanding of that key period in midcentury. This authoritative account utilizes new archival material, including never before seen documents, and extensive interviews with Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, and with Chinese officials. Goldstein



furnishes fascinating and sometimes surprising portraits of these major players as he deftly unravels the fateful intertwining of Tibetan and Chinese politics against the backdrop of the Korean War, the tenuous Sino-Soviet alliance, and American cold war policy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777990703321

Titolo

The futures of American studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-282-92044-8

9786612920448

0-8223-8419-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (631 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Classificazione

HR 1080

Altri autori (Persone)

PeaseDonald E

WiegmanRobyn

Disciplina

973/.071

Soggetti

EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

United States Study and teaching

United States Study and teaching Forecasting

United States Social conditions 1980-2020

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-608) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman -- What's in a name? / Jan Radway -- The international within the national : American studies and Asian American critique / Lisa Lowe -- The future in the present : sexual avant-gardes and the performance of Utopia / José Esteban Muñoz -- Manifest domesticity / Amy Kaplan -- C.L.R. James, Moby-Dick, and the emergence of transnational American studies / Donald E. Pease -- Postnationalism, globalism, and the new American studies / John Carols Rowe -- Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller -- The humanities in the age of expressive individualism and cultural radicalism / Winfried Fluck -- Autobiographies of the ex-white men : why race is not a social construction / Walter Benn Michaels -- Color



blindness and acting out / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones -- Whiteness studies and the paradox of particularity / Robyn Wiegman -- Identities and identity studies : reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The Hammer Man" / Lindon Barrett -- Hemisphere vertigo : Cuba, Quebec, and other provisional reconfigurations of "our" new America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz -- Marriage as treason : polygamy, nation and the novel / Nancy Bentley -- Litigious therapeutics : recovering the rights of children / Gillian Brown -- American studies in the "Age of the world picture" : thinking the question of language / William V. Spanos -- Work and culture in American studies / Michael Denning -- "Sent for you yesterday, here you come today" : American studies scholarship and the new social movements / George Lipsitz -- Toward a dialogics of international American culture studies : transnationality, border discourses, and public culture(s) / Günter H. Lenz -- American studies, American politics, and the reinvention of class / Paul Lauter -- The end of academia : the future of American studies / Eric Cheyfitz -- Nation dot com : American studies and the production of the corporatist citizen / Russ Castronovo -- ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson.

Sommario/riassunto

A state of the art portrait of the field of American studies--its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the f