Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands
Sulmaan Khan
Abstract
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. This book tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal, traders carrying salt across the Himalayas, and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa. Moving from capital cities to far-flung mountain villages, from top diplomats to nomads crossing disputed boundaries in search of pasture, this book shows Cold War China as it has ... More
Keywords: diplomats, Dalai Lama, Lhasa, People's Republic of China, Tibet, Guomindang spies, Nepal, Himalayas, Tibetan Muslims, Cold War
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9781469621104 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: January 2016 | DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469621104.001.0001 |
