To the End of Revolution - The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 19491959

The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu draws on unprecedented access to the archives of the Chinese Communist Party to offer a groundbreaking account of Beijing¿s evolving Tibet policy during the critical first decade of the People¿s Republic.

List of contents

Preface
Nomenclature and Transliteration
Introduction
1. A Protracted Agenda
2. The “Dalai Line”
3. A Time to Change
4. A New Phase
5. A Waiting Game
6. The Showdown
Epilogue: Tibet and the World, According to Beijing
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Xiaoyuan Liu is David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Virginia and Zijiang Professor at East China Normal University. His books include Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921–1945 (2004) and Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911–1950 (2006).

Summary

The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu draws on unprecedented access to the archives of the Chinese Communist Party to offer a groundbreaking account of Beijing’s evolving Tibet policy during the critical first decade of the People’s Republic.

Additional text

Mr. Liu...mines official documents—from speeches by top leaders to minutes of committee meetings—to reveal the debates and divides that shaped the story of Tibet.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaoyuan Liu, Xiaoyuan (David Dean Professor of East Asian Liu, Xiaoyuan (David Dean Professor of East Asian Studies and Professor of History) Liu, Liu Xiaoyuan
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780231195270
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19527-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; China, Tibet, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Politics & government, Politics and government, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, C 1945 To C 1960, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General