A history of modern Tibet / Melvyn C. Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

Contributor:

Rimpoche, Gelek.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Physical Description:

volumes, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1989-]

Summary:

It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened--and why--during the 1950s. 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:

[v. 1.] 1913-1951 : the demise of the Lamaist state

v. 2. The calm before the storm, 1951-1955

Notes:

"With the help of Gelek Rimpoche"--Vol. 1.

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Vol. 1, prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0520061403

9780520061408

9780520249417

0520249410

OCLC:

259267208

Online:

Vol. 2, Table of contents only