A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2

The Calm before the Storm: 1951-1955

Melvyn C. Goldstein

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9780520259959
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520933323
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• NOTE ON ROMANIZATION
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• GLOSSARY OF KEY PERSONS AND TERMS
• Introduction: Tibetan Society on the Eve of Incorporation into China
• PART ONE. THE ROAD TO A SINO-TIBETAN AGREEMENT
• PART TWO. THE FIRST TWO YEARS: CONFRONTATION AND ADJUSTMENT
• PART THREE. COOPERATION AND CHANGE
• APPENDIX A. LOBSANG SAMDEN'S 1952 LETTER TO TSIPÖN SHAKABPA
• APPENDIX B. KASHAG'S 1953 EDICT REFORMING DEBTS IN TIBET
• APPENDIX C. AGREEMENT OF THE SECRET RESISTANCE ORGANIZATION IN INDIA
• APPENDIX D. LIST OF CORRECT TIBETAN SPELLINGS
• REFERENCES
• INDEX