Melvyn C. Goldstein

A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2

The Calm before the Storm: 1951-1955

Buch

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 surprisin… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-25995-9
EAN: 9780520259959
Produktnummer: 4311188
Verlag: University of California Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 676 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.5 cm x D4.3 cm 964 g
Abbildungen: 26 b-w photographs, 4 maps
Gewicht: 964
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

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 Phüntso 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.