Table of Contents

Preface

The Imperial Era
Interlude: De Facto Independence
Chinese Communist Rule: The Mao Era
The Post-Mao Era
The Future

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Illustrations follow page

About the Author

Melvyn C. Goldstein is John Reynolds Harkness Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University as well as Director of the University's Center for Research on Tibet. He is author or coauthor of over eighty articles and books on Tibet, including A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951 (California, 1989), Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A Reading Course and Reference Grammar (California, 1991), and The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering (1997).

Reviews

"Remains the best introduction to Tibet." -- Nicholas Kristof New York Times