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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.