A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4 : In the Eye of the Storm, 1957-1959 / Melvyn C. Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Melvyn C., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History--1951-.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

It is not possible to understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950s, especially the events that occurred in 1957-59. The fourth volume of Melvyn C. Goldstein's History of Modern Tibet series, In the Eye of the Storm, provides new perspectives on Sino-Tibetan history during the period leading to the Tibetan Uprising of 1959. The volume also reassesses issues that have been widely misunderstood as well as stereotypes and misrepresentations in the popular realm and in academic literature (such as in Mao's policies on Tibet). Volume 4 draws on important new Chinese government documents, published and unpublished memoirs, new biographies, and a large corpus of in-depth, specially collected political interviews to reexamine the events that produced the March 10th uprising and the demise of Tibet's famous Buddhist civilization. The result is a heavily documented analysis that presents a nuanced and balanced account of the principal players and their policies during the critical final two years of Sino-Tibetan relations under the Seventeen-Point Agreement of 1951.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Glossary of Key People and Terms

1. Introduction: Traditional Tibetan Society

2. Historical Antecedents

3. Khamba Developments in Lhasa and Saipan

4. The CIA, Phala, and Chushigandru

5. Chushigandru in Lhoka

6. Chushigandru and the PLA

7. The Fall of Fan Ming

8. The Kashag Responds

9. The Namseling Delegation and Chushigandru

10. Chushigandru after Shang Ganden Chöngor

11. At the Edge of the Precipice

12. The Lhasa Uprising Begins

13. Chinese Responses and the Dalai Lama's Flight

14. Over the Cliff

15. The End of Old Tibet

16. Some Final Thoughts and What-ifs

Appendix A. Correct Tibetan Spellings

Appendix B. Kashag's Edict from Lhüntse Dzong (26 March 1959)

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-520-97225-2

OCLC:

1085626302