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Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands - The New Cold War History
Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands - The New Cold War History
Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Commendation Quotes: Scholars have long championed a 'new international history, ' seeking work that not only studies high politics but also represents the bottom-up, cultural, and social experience of everyday people. Emerging here is the kind of pathbreaking book that so many of us have been striving to producePublisher Marketing: In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan 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. What Chinese policymakers confronted in Tibet, Khan argues, was not a "third world" but a "fourth world" problem: Beijing was dealing with peoples whose ways were defined by statelessness. As it sought to tighten control over the restive borderlands, Mao's China moved from a lighter hand to a harder, heavier imperial structure. That change triggered long-lasting shifts in Chinese foreign policy. 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 never been seen before and reveals the deep influence of the Tibetan crisis on the political fabric of present-day China. Contributor Bio: Khan, Sulmaan Wasif Sulmaan Wasif Khan is assistant professor of international history and Chinese foreign relations at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 30, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781469621104 |
Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
Genre | Cultural Region > Asian Studies |
Pages | 208 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 24 mm · 395 g |
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