A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4: In the Eye of the Storm, 1957-1959It 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 Volume 4 draws on important new Chinese government documents, published and unpublished memoirs, new biographies, and a large corpus of in-depth, specially collected political interviews to reexamine the events that produced the March 10th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
Traditional Tibetan Society 1 | 1 |
Historical Antecedents | 23 |
Khamba Developments in Lhasa and Saipan | 83 |
The CIA Phala and Chushigandru | 101 |
Chushigandru in Lhoka | 128 |
Chushigandru and the | 149 |
The Fall of Fan Ming | 181 |
The Kashag Responds | 212 |
The Namseling Delegation and Chushigandru | 246 |
Chushigandru after Shang Ganden Chöngor | 271 |
At the Edge of the Precipice | 315 |
The Lhasa Uprising Begins | 354 |
Chinese Responses and the Dalai Lamas Flight | 401 |
Over the Cliff | 439 |
The End of Old Tibet | 461 |
Some Final Thoughts and Whatifs | 490 |
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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4: In the Eye of the Storm, 1957-1959 Melvyn C. Goldstein No preview available - 2019 |
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