Tibet unconquered: Diane Wolff; foreword by Robert Thurman. an epic struggle for freedom/
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xv, 248 p., [8] p. of plates: 25cm. ill., mapISBN: 9780230622739 (hbk.); 0230622739 (hbk.)Subject(s): Imperialism -- History | China -- Relations -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- China | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Politics and Government | China -- Politics and GovernmentDDC classification: 951.505Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 951.505 WOL/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P13063 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART 1. Awash in the twentieth century : Tibet as the high ground of inner Asia --
Six Tibets --
Tibet's backstory --
China's backstory --
Seeds of the present problem --
The ice of the Cold War and the thaw of globalization --
PART 2. The Mongol Khans : China's claim to Tibet --
The supreme Khan and the conquest of North China --
Dethroning the golden emperor --
Taking Qungdu --
A literary man in a military government --
Chinggis Khan's successor consolidates the conquest of North China --
Reunification : Khubilai Khan and the conquest of Southern China --
Tibetan Buddhism at the center : the priest-patron relationship --
PART 3. Ming and Qing dynasties : Tibetan religious influence at the center of the Chinese imperial system --
The end of the Mongols --
Foreign relations during the Ming --
Civil war in Tibet : the emergence of the Dalai Lama --
The Manchus take the dragon throne --
China and Tibet during the Qing --
Uses of Tibetan Buddhism : managing marauding Mongols --
PART 4. The nineteenth century : the Manchus, the Raj, and the Czars --
Tibet shuffled in the great game --
The last emperor and the Dalai Lamas --
PART 5. Early twentieth century China : the Chinese imperial system falls, but the nationalists keep imperial policy in Tibet --
The failure of the Chinese center --
The nationalists and the minorities --
Between the Dalai Lamas --
The nationalists lose --
PART 6. Mid twentieth century China : the communists defeat the nationalists but keep imperial policy in Tibet --
Closing China's back door --
At Stalin's knee : the evolution of China's minority policy --
The fifties : go slow and court the elites --
The Cultural Revolution : fast track to socialism --
Mao, Zhou, and Tibetan Buddhism : propagandizing China about Tibet --
PART 7. Late twentieth century China : Hu Yaobang and the liberal policies of the eighties --
The ups and downs of the Deng era --
The soft line : Hu Yaobang reverses course --
The 1987 uprising : return to the hard line --
PART 8. Twenty-first century : a new roadmap for Tibet --
Back to the future --
Brief timeline. Robert Thurman -- Part 1. Surging Storms: Tibet as the High Ground of Inner Asia -- Part 2. The Mongol Khans: China's Claim to Tibet -- Part 3. Ming and Qing Dynasties: Tibetan Religious Influence in the Chinese Imperial System -- Part 4. Tibet and the Great Game: The Manchu, the Raj, and the Czars -- Part 5. Early Twentieth-Century China: The Nationalists Adopt Imperial Policy in Tibet -- Part 6. Mid-Twentieth-Century China: The Communists Retain Imperial Policy in Tibet -- Part 7. Late Twentieth-Century China: Hu Yaobang and the Liberal Policies of the 1980s -- Part 8. The Twenty-First Century: A New Road Map for Tibet.
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