A History of Modern Tibet

by Goldstein, Melvyn C.

• ISBN13: 9780520259959
• ISBN10: 0520259955
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-13
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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 acclaimedA 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.

Author Biography

Melvyn C. Goldstein is Professor of Anthropology and Codirector of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama (UC Press), among other books.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Note on Romanization	p. xix
List of Abbreviations	p. xxi
Glossary of Key Persons and Terms	p. xxiii
Introduction: Tibetan Society on the Eve of Incorporation into China	p. 1
The Road to a Sino-Tibetan Agreement
Chinese Perspectives: Radio Beijing	p. 19
Tibetan Perspectives: Contacts with the Chinese Communists	p. 41
Tibet Appeals to the United Nations	p. 59
Negotiations with Beijing	p. 82
The United States Intervenes	p. 114
The Dalai Lama Returns to Lhasa	p. 138
The First Two Years: Confrontation and Adjustment
Initial Contacts and Strategies	p. 169
The Advance PLA Force Arrives in Lhasa	p. 206
The Food Crisis	p. 244
The Panchen Lama and the People's Liberation Army	p. 265
First Steps toward Implementing the Seventeen-Point Agreement	p. 301
The Tibetan People's Association	p. 314
Turning to the Dalai Lama and Removing the Sitsab	p. 341
The Return of the Panchen Lama	p. 385
Cooperation and Change
Winds of Change	p. 399
Conflict within the Communist Party in Tibet	p. 422
Tibet's First Steps toward Socioeconomic Reform	p. 454
Events in India	p. 464
The Dalai Lama Goes to Beijing	p. 478
The Dalai Lama in Beijing	p. 491
The Return to Lhasa	p. 523
Conclusions	p. 541
Lobsang Samden's 1952 Letter to Tsipon Shakabpa	p. 551
Kashag's 1953 Edict Reforming Debts in Tibet	p. 553
Agreement of the Secret Resistance Organization in India, 1954	p. 561
List of Correct Tibetan Spellings	p. 565
References	p. 583
Index	p. 605
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