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Tibet

- An Unfinished Story
Af: Lezlee Brown Halper, Stefan Halper Engelsk Hardback

Tibet

- An Unfinished Story
Af: Lezlee Brown Halper, Stefan Halper Engelsk Hardback
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Tibet''s enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet also exercises immense ''soft power'' as one of the lenses through which the world views China. This book traces the origins and manifestations of the Tibetan myth, as propagated by Younghusband, Madam Blavatsky, Himmler, Acheson and Roosevelt. The authors discuss how, after WW2, Tibet - isolated, misunderstood and with a tiny elite unschooled in political-military realities - - misread the diplomacy between its two giant neighbours, India and China, forlornly hoping London or Washington might intervene. The PLA sought nothing less than to deconstruct traditional Tibet, unseat the Dalai Lama and ''absorb'' this vast region into the People''s Republic, and Lhasa succumbed to China''s invasion in 1950. Drawing on declassified CIA and Chinese documents, the authors reveal Mao''s collusion with Stalin to subdue Tibet, double-dealing by Nehru, the brilliant diplomacy of Chou en Lai and how Washington see-sawed between the China lobby, who insisted there be no backing for an independent Tibet, and Presidents Truman and later Eisenhower, who initiated a covert CIA programme to support the Dalai Lama and resist Chinese occupation. It is an ignoble saga with few, if any, heroes, other than ordinary Tibetans.
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Tibet''s enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet also exercises immense ''soft power'' as one of the lenses through which the world views China. This book traces the origins and manifestations of the Tibetan myth, as propagated by Younghusband, Madam Blavatsky, Himmler, Acheson and Roosevelt. The authors discuss how, after WW2, Tibet - isolated, misunderstood and with a tiny elite unschooled in political-military realities - - misread the diplomacy between its two giant neighbours, India and China, forlornly hoping London or Washington might intervene. The PLA sought nothing less than to deconstruct traditional Tibet, unseat the Dalai Lama and ''absorb'' this vast region into the People''s Republic, and Lhasa succumbed to China''s invasion in 1950. Drawing on declassified CIA and Chinese documents, the authors reveal Mao''s collusion with Stalin to subdue Tibet, double-dealing by Nehru, the brilliant diplomacy of Chou en Lai and how Washington see-sawed between the China lobby, who insisted there be no backing for an independent Tibet, and Presidents Truman and later Eisenhower, who initiated a covert CIA programme to support the Dalai Lama and resist Chinese occupation. It is an ignoble saga with few, if any, heroes, other than ordinary Tibetans.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781849043595
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1849043590
Kategori: Tibet
Udg. Dato: 23 nov 2013
Længde: 36mm
Bredde: 232mm
Højde: 172mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 23 nov 2013
Forfatter(e): Lezlee Brown Halper, Stefan Halper
Forfatter(e) Lezlee Brown Halper, Stefan Halper

Kategori Tibet

ISBN-13 9781849043595

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 36mm

Bredde 232mm

Højde 172mm

Udg. Dato 23 nov 2013

Oplagsdato 23 nov 2013

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

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