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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xxx, 639 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520249410
  • 9780520249417
Other title:
  • Calm before the storm, nineteen fifty one-nineteen fifty five
  • Calm before the storm, 1951 to 1955
  • Calm before the storm, 1951-1955 [Portion of title]
  • Calm before the storm
Related works:
  • Revision of: Goldstein, Melvyn C. History of modern Tibet, 1913-1951
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.5055 22
LOC classification:
  • DS786 .G635 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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."--Publisher description.
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim. p.

Continues: A history of modern Tibet, 1913-1951 : the demise of the Lamaist state / Melvyn C. Goldstein ; with the help of Gelek Rimpoche.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-604) and index.

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.

"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."--Publisher description.

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