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A history of modern Tibet

Melvyn C. Goldstein and Gelek Rimpoche 1991 © University of California Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780520911765 (ebook)
  • 9780520075900 (paper)
  • 9780520061408 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • Explanation of Romanization and Abbreviations (page xvii)
  • Preface (page xix)
  • Introduction: Tibetan Society, 1913-1951 (page 1)
  • I: THE ERA OF THE 13TH DALAI LAMA AND RETING, 1913-1941
    • 1. The Early Years of the 13th Dalai Lama (page 41)
    • 2. Tibet and the New Republic in China (page 65)
    • 3. The Dalai Lama, the Army, and the Monastic Segment (page 89)
    • 4. The Death of the 13th Dalai Lama (page 139)
    • 5. The Fall of Kumbela (page 146)
    • 6. In Search of a New Tibet: Lungshar's Reform Party (page 186)
    • 7. The Mission of General Huang Mu-sung (page 213)
    • 8. The British, the Chinese, and the Panchen Lama (page 252)
    • 9. Reting Takes Control, Then Resigns (page 310)
    • 10. Conclusion to Part One: The Reting Years (page 364)
  • II: THE ERA OF TAKTRA AND THE 14TH DALAI LAMA, 1941-1951
    • 11. The Early Years of the Taktra Regency: 1941-1943 (page 369)
    • 12. Change and Confrontation in the Twilight of World War II (page 405)
    • 13. The Seeds of Rebellion (page 427)
    • 14. The Reting Conspiracy (page 464)
    • 15. The Victory Congratulations Mission, 1945-1946 (page 522)
    • 16. Further Attempts at International Visibility (page 560)
    • 17. Tibet after the Fall of the Kuomintang (page 611)
    • 18. The People's Liberation Army Invades (page 638)
    • 19. After the Fall of Chamdo (page 698)
    • 20. Tibet Capitulates: The Seventeen-Point Agreement (page 737)
    • 21. The Dalai Lama Returns to Lhasa (page 773)
  • Conclusion: The Demise of the Lamaist State (page 815)
  • Postscript (page 825)
  • Appendix A. Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1906 (page 827)
  • Appendix B. Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 (page 829)
  • Appendix C. The Simla Agreements of 1914 (page 832)
  • Glossary of Tibetan Terms (page 843)
  • References (page 845)
  • Correct Tibetan Spellings (page 855)
  • Index (page 883)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 49.4 (Nov. 1990): 901-902 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2058263
ENHR 108.428 (Jul. 1993): 767-768 http://www.jstor.org/stable/57485
AHR 96.2 (Apr. 1991): 582-583 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2163373
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