Tibet in Agony : : Lhasa 1959 /

Tibet in Agony : : Lhasa 1959 / / Jianglin Li.

The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The second incident—the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989—is well known. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet, remains little understood today. Yet in wages of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Li, Jianglin,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (372 p.) :; 30 halftones, 7 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the English Edition
  • Maps
  • Prologue
  • 1. The Seeds of War
  • 2. Summit in Delhi
  • 3. Tragedy at Lake Qinghai
  • 4. Uneasy Spring in Lhasa
  • 5. The Exorcists’ Dance at the Potala Palace
  • 6. Peril at the Prayer Festival
  • 7. The Dalai Lama May Not Bring Bodyguards
  • 8. The Most Momentous Day in Tibetan History
  • 9. The Undercover Men of Kham
  • 10. Protect the Norbulingka! Protect the Dalai Lama!
  • 11. The Gathering Clouds of War
  • 12. A Secret Plan
  • 13. Go! Go! Tonight!
  • 14. The Night Ferry
  • 15. Into the Himalayas
  • 16. Battle at Daybreak
  • 17. The Death of the Medicine Buddha
  • 18. River of Blood
  • 19. Inferno
  • 20. Surrender, and Save the Temple!
  • 21. The Aftermath
  • 22. The Eternal Crossing
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Names
  • Wylie Transliteration of Tibetan Names
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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