Melvyn C. Goldstein 
A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2 
The Calm before the Storm: 1951-1955

It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened—and why—during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of Tibet’s history that he began in his acclaimed
A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, Melvyn C. Goldstein critically revises our understanding of that key period in midcentury. This authoritative account utilizes new archival material, including never before seen documents, and extensive interviews with Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, and with Chinese officials. Goldstein furnishes fascinating and sometimes surprising portraits of these major players as he deftly unravels the fateful intertwining of Tibetan and Chinese politics against the backdrop of the Korean War, the tenuous Sino-Soviet alliance, and American cold war policy.

Daftar Isi

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Romanization

List of Abbreviations

Glossary of Key Persons and Terms

Introduction: Tibetan Society on the Eve of Incorporation into China


PART ONE: THE ROAD TO A SINO-TIBETAN AGREEMENT

1. Chinese Perspectives

2. Tibetan Perspectives

3. Tibet Appeals to the United Nations

4. Negotiations with Beijing

5. The United States Intervenes

6. The Dalai Lama Returns to Lhasa


PART TWO: THE FIRST TWO YEARS: CONFRONTATION AND ADJUSTMENT

7. Initial Contacts and Strategies

8. The Advance PLA Force Arrives in Lhasa

9. The Food Crisis

10. The Panchen Lama and the People’s Liberation Army

11. First Steps toward Implementing the Seventeen-Point Agreement

12. The Tibetan People’s Association

13. Turning to the Dalai Lama and Removing the Sitsab

14. The Return of the Panchen Lama


PART THREE: COOPERATION AND CHANGE

15. Winds of Change

16. Conflict within the Communist Party in Tibet

17. Tibet’s First Steps toward Socioeconomic Reform

18. Events in India

19. The Dalai Lama Goes to Beijing

20. The Dalai Lama in Beijing

21. The Return to Lhasa

22. Conclusions


Appendix A. Lobsang Samden’s 1952 Letter to Tsipön Shakabpa

Appendix B. Kashag’s 1953 Edict Reforming Debts in Tibet

Appendix C. Agreement of the Secret Resistance Organization in India, 1954

Appendix D. List of Correct Tibetan Spellings

References

Index

Tentang Penulis

Melvyn C. Goldstein is John Reynolds Harkness Professor in Anthropology and Codirector of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of many books on Tibet including A Tibetan Revolutionary The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye (with Dawei Sherap and William R. Siebenschuh), Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A Reading Course and Reference Grammar, and A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951, all published by UC Press.