A history of modern Tibet

University of California Press

1989

xxv, 898 pages, 11 pages of plates

9780520075900

I. Era of the 13th Dalai Lama and Reting, 1913-1941. Early years of the 13th Dalai Lama --Tibet and the New Republic in China --Dalai Lama, the Army, and the monastic segment --Death of the 13th Dalai Lama --Fall of Kumbela --In search of a new Tibet: Lungshar's reform party --Miission of general Huang Mu-sung --British, the Chinese and the Panchen Lama --Reting takes contronl, then resigns --Conclusion to part one: the Reting years --II. Era of Taktra and the 14th Dalai Lama, 1941-1951. Early years of the Taktra regency: 1941-1943 --Change and confrontation in the twilight of World War II --Seeds of Rebellion --Reting conspiracy --Victory congratulations mission, 1945-1946 --Further attempts at International visibility --Tibet after the fall of the Kuomintang --People's Liberation Army invades --Afterthe fall of Chamdo --Tibet capitulates: the seventeen-point agreemnt 00 Dalai Lama returns to Lhasa --Conclusion: the demise of the Lamaist state

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