A HISTORY OF MODERN TIBET, Volume 2. The Calm before the Storm: 1951 - 1955

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

ISBN 10: 0520249410 / ISBN 13: 9780520249417

Published by University of California Press, Berkley Los Angeles London, 2007

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1st edition, 2007. Near Fine. 8vo., 639 pp., with black and white illustrations. Bound in publishers blue cloth with blue illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket shows minor edge wear, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Tibet, on the lofty Tibetan Plateau on the northern side of the Himalayas, is an autonomous region of China. It's nicknamed the "Roof of the World" for its towering peaks. It shares Mt. Everest with Nepal. Its capital, Lhasa, is site of hilltop Potala Palace, once the Dalai Lama's winter home, and Jokhang Temple, Tibet's spiritual heart, revered for its golden statue of the young Buddha. â Google. Seller Inventory # 26212

Bibliographic Details

Title: A HISTORY OF MODERN TIBET, Volume 2. The ...

Publisher: University of California Press, Berkley Los Angeles London

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st edition.

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Melvyn C. Goldstein is John Reynolds Harkness Professor in Anthropology and Codirector of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of many books on Tibet including A Tibetan Revolutionary The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye (with Dawei Sherap and William R. Siebenschuh), Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A Reading Course and Reference Grammar, and A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951, all published by UC Press.