The dragon in the land of snows
Subtitle: a history of modern Tibet since 1947
By: Tsering Shakya.
Publisher: Columbia University press; Columbia University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: History of modern Tibet since 1947
Description: "This definitive history of modern Tibet - based entirely on unpublished primary sources and written by a Western-educated Tibetan author - shatters the popular perception of Tibet as an isolated Shangri-la unaffected by broader international developments and rises above the simplistic dualism so often encountered in accounts of Tibet's contested recent history."--BOOK JACKET.

"With careful and thorough documentation, the author details the Chinese depredations of Tibet and the many concomitant shifts in policy and political fortune. However, he also reveals the failures of the Tibetan leadership's myopic and divided strategies to engage the Chinese by on the one hand pursuing a policy of coexistence with communist China and on the other trying to preserve her unique identity as a Buddhist state under the leadership of the Dalai Lama."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-546) and index.
Table of contents: title: The lull before the storm; title: China invades; title: Tibet appeals to the UN and the 17-point agreement; title: An uneasy co-existence; title: The rift; title: The revolt; title: The flight of the Dalai Lama; title: The international response and Tibet at the UN; title: Reform and repression; title: War in the Himalayas; title: Socialist transformation Tibet; title: The cultural revolution; title: Revolution postponed?; title: A road to the New Tibet; title: Postscript.