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By: Tsering Shakya

ISBN: 9781844670437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Verso Books
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Presents a debate on the occupation of Tibet and the movement for independence. This title offers a dialogue between a dissenting Chinese intellectual and Tibet's outstanding national historian breaks taboos on both sides of the decades-long conflict. It considers some of the bitter paradoxes of Tibet's history under Communist rule.


(Paperback)

By: Tsering Shakya

ISBN: 9780712665339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Vintage
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The Dragon in the Land of Snows is a definitive history of modern Tibet. It shatters the popular perception of Tibet as an isolated Shangri-La, and shows how the British withdrawal from India altered the balance of power in the region and left Tibet vulnerable to the newly emergent powers of Asia, India and China.