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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

Contributor:

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 639 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliography and index.

Related Work:

Goldstein, Melvyn C. History of modern Tibet, 1913-1951.

ISBN:

9786612759529

9781282759527

1282759523

9780520933323

052093332X

9781435601956

1435601955

OCLC:

174522920