03624cam a2200229 a 4500020002500000020002200025040000800047082001900055100001700074245009700091260004200188300005400230500005100284505275900335650002503094651005303119651005403172651004503226651006103271651003503332700002703367 a9780230622739 (hbk.) a0230622739 (hbk.) cCUS00a951.505bWOL/T1 aWolff, Diane10aTibet unconquered: cDiane Wolff; foreword by Robert Thurman.ban epic struggle for freedom/ aNew York:bPalgrave Macmillan,c2010. axv, 248 p., [8] p. of plates:c25cm.b ill., map; aIncludes bibliographical references and index.00t PART 1. Awash in the twentieth century : Tibet as the high ground of inner Asia -- Six Tibets -- Tibet's backstory -- China's backstory -- Seeds of the present problem -- The ice of the Cold War and the thaw of globalization -- PART 2. The Mongol Khans : China's claim to Tibet -- The supreme Khan and the conquest of North China -- Dethroning the golden emperor -- Taking Qungdu -- A literary man in a military government -- Chinggis Khan's successor consolidates the conquest of North China -- Reunification : Khubilai Khan and the conquest of Southern China -- Tibetan Buddhism at the center : the priest-patron relationship -- PART 3. Ming and Qing dynasties : Tibetan religious influence at the center of the Chinese imperial system -- The end of the Mongols -- Foreign relations during the Ming -- Civil war in Tibet : the emergence of the Dalai Lama -- The Manchus take the dragon throne -- China and Tibet during the Qing -- Uses of Tibetan Buddhism : managing marauding Mongols -- PART 4. The nineteenth century : the Manchus, the Raj, and the Czars -- Tibet shuffled in the great game -- The last emperor and the Dalai Lamas -- PART 5. Early twentieth century China : the Chinese imperial system falls, but the nationalists keep imperial policy in Tibet -- The failure of the Chinese center -- The nationalists and the minorities -- Between the Dalai Lamas -- The nationalists lose -- PART 6. Mid twentieth century China : the communists defeat the nationalists but keep imperial policy in Tibet -- Closing China's back door -- At Stalin's knee : the evolution of China's minority policy -- The fifties : go slow and court the elites -- The Cultural Revolution : fast track to socialism -- Mao, Zhou, and Tibetan Buddhism : propagandizing China about Tibet -- PART 7. Late twentieth century China : Hu Yaobang and the liberal policies of the eighties -- The ups and downs of the Deng era -- The soft line : Hu Yaobang reverses course -- The 1987 uprising : return to the hard line -- PART 8. Twenty-first century : a new roadmap for Tibet -- Back to the future -- Brief timeline.rRobert Thurman -- gPart 1.tSurging Storms: Tibet as the High Ground of Inner Asia -- gPart 2.tThe Mongol Khans: China's Claim to Tibet -- gPart 3.tMing and Qing Dynasties: Tibetan Religious Influence in the Chinese Imperial System -- gPart 4.tTibet and the Great Game: The Manchu, the Raj, and the Czars -- gPart 5.tEarly Twentieth-Century China: The Nationalists Adopt Imperial Policy in Tibet -- gPart 6.tMid-Twentieth-Century China: The Communists Retain Imperial Policy in Tibet -- gPart 7.tLate Twentieth-Century China: Hu Yaobang and the Liberal Policies of the 1980s -- gPart 8.tThe Twenty-First Century: A New Road Map for Tibet. 0aImperialismxHistory 0aChinaxRelationszChinazTibet Autonomous Region 0aTibet Autonomous Region (China)xRelationszChina 0aTibet Autonomous Region (China)xHistory 0aTibet Autonomous Region (China)xPolitics and Government 0aChinaxPolitics and Government aThurman, Robert A. F.