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082 0 0 _a951.505
_bWOL/T
100 1 _aWolff, Diane
245 1 0 _aTibet unconquered:
_cDiane Wolff; foreword by Robert Thurman.
_ban epic struggle for freedom/
260 _aNew York:
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2010.
300 _axv, 248 p., [8] p. of plates:
_c25cm.
_b ill., map;
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _t 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.
_rRobert Thurman --
_gPart 1.
_tSurging Storms: Tibet as the High Ground of Inner Asia --
_gPart 2.
_tThe Mongol Khans: China's Claim to Tibet --
_gPart 3.
_tMing and Qing Dynasties: Tibetan Religious Influence in the Chinese Imperial System --
_gPart 4.
_tTibet and the Great Game: The Manchu, the Raj, and the Czars --
_gPart 5.
_tEarly Twentieth-Century China: The Nationalists Adopt Imperial Policy in Tibet --
_gPart 6.
_tMid-Twentieth-Century China: The Communists Retain Imperial Policy in Tibet --
_gPart 7.
_tLate Twentieth-Century China: Hu Yaobang and the Liberal Policies of the 1980s --
_gPart 8.
_tThe Twenty-First Century: A New Road Map for Tibet.
650 0 _aImperialism
_xHistory
651 0 _aChina
_xRelations
_zChina
_zTibet Autonomous Region
651 0 _aTibet Autonomous Region (China)
_xRelations
_zChina
651 0 _aTibet Autonomous Region (China)
_xHistory
651 0 _aTibet Autonomous Region (China)
_xPolitics and Government
651 0 _aChina
_xPolitics and Government
700 _aThurman, Robert A. F.
942 _cWB16