Tibet unconquered: an epic struggle for freedom/
Diane Wolff; foreword by Robert Thurman.
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- xv, 248 p., [8] p. of plates: ill., map; 25cm.
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. Surging Storms: Tibet as the High Ground of Inner Asia -- The Mongol Khans: China's Claim to Tibet -- Ming and Qing Dynasties: Tibetan Religious Influence in the Chinese Imperial System -- Tibet and the Great Game: The Manchu, the Raj, and the Czars -- Early Twentieth-Century China: The Nationalists Adopt Imperial Policy in Tibet -- Mid-Twentieth-Century China: The Communists Retain Imperial Policy in Tibet -- Late Twentieth-Century China: Hu Yaobang and the Liberal Policies of the 1980s -- The Twenty-First Century: A New Road Map for Tibet. Robert Thurman -- Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7. Part 8.
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