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Freeing Tibet : 50 years of struggle, resilience, and hope / John B. Roberts II, Elizabeth A. Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, John B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : AMACOM, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The rich, epic, and harrowing story of one country's unrelenting fight for autonomy.
- Contents:
- Part One. Struggle
- Warriors of the fortress of faith
- The tennis champion of Darjeeling
- The dharma beatniks and the island of the dead
- All tsampa eaters must stand together
- The Dalai Lama's great escape
- Eisenhower expands the covert war
- Hearts and minds
- America's secret Bay of Pigs
- Part Two. Resilience
- Wheels within wheels
- Cultural revolutions
- Nixon embraces China
- Counterculture to the rescue
- Part Three. Hope
- The Dalai Lama finds a middle way
- The 1990s: the Tibetan movement goes global
- The Tibetan national uprising of 2008
- The last Dalai Lama?
- What is to be done to free Tibet?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612091131
- 9781282091139
- 1282091131
- 9780814413753
- 0814413757
- OCLC:
- 351588414
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