an epic struggle for freedom Wolff, Diane creator Thurman, Robert A. F. text New York Palgrave Macmillan 2010 monographic xv, 248 p., [8] p. of plates: 25cm. ill., map; 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. Robert Thurman -- Part 1. Surging Storms: Tibet as the High Ground of Inner Asia -- Part 2. The Mongol Khans: China's Claim to Tibet -- Part 3. Ming and Qing Dynasties: Tibetan Religious Influence in the Chinese Imperial System -- Part 4. Tibet and the Great Game: The Manchu, the Raj, and the Czars -- Part 5. Early Twentieth-Century China: The Nationalists Adopt Imperial Policy in Tibet -- Part 6. Mid-Twentieth-Century China: The Communists Retain Imperial Policy in Tibet -- Part 7. Late Twentieth-Century China: Hu Yaobang and the Liberal Policies of the 1980s -- Part 8. The Twenty-First Century: A New Road Map for Tibet. Diane Wolff; foreword by Robert Thurman. Includes bibliographical references and index. Imperialism History China Relations China Tibet Autonomous Region Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Relations China Tibet Autonomous Region (China) History Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Politics and Government China Politics and Government 951.505 WOL/T 9780230622739 (hbk.) 0230622739 (hbk.)