Authenticating Tibet Answers to China's 100 Questions

Name: Authenticating Tibet Answers to China's 100 Questions
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ISBN: 9780520249288

ISBN-10: 0520249283

ISBN-13: 9780520249288

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anne-Marie Blondeau, Katia Buffetrille, Donald Lopez, Donald Lopez

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The land of Tibet-its people, culture, and religion-has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of controversy when China's "peaceful liberation" of the land of snows led to the Lhasa uprising and the Dalai Lama's escape to India.Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's "100 Questions"offers clear and unbiased responses to a booklet published by the Chinese government in 1989, which sought to counter the criticism generated by the Dalai Lama and his followers and offer the PRC's "truth" about Tibet and Tibetans. InAuthenticating Tibet,international Tibet scholars provide historically accurate answers to the "100…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Foreword


Preface to the English edition by Katia Buffetrille


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations and Conventions Maps



Historical Facts



Human Rights



Policies toward the Dalai Lama



Population



Religious Belief



Right to Autonomy



Culture and Education



Economic Development



Livelihood of the People



About the Riots in Lhasa


A Comparative Chronology of Tibet and China


Glossary


References


Contributors