03241cam a2200361 i 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059050002300067100003400090245007200124260004800196300001900244505001700263520016600280520149300446650006001939650003801999650006802037650004302105651006002148651007802208651007802286651006402364651004502428651004502473651005702518651005702575700004002632900001502672942001302687999001902700952016002719140131s2014    enka     b    001 0 eng    a9780199368365  aSDU00aDS786bH195 T 20141 aHalper, Lezlee Brown,920373910aTibet :ban unfinished story /cLezlee Brown Halper, Stefan Halper.  aNew York : bOxford University Press,c2014  a367 p. :bill.0 aHKBU Library2 a"The mythologising of Tibet in the West and the Himalyan state's subsequent abandonment to China are recounted in this briskly-paced and revealing new history"--2 a"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. China's People's Liberation Army 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"-- 0aMythxPolitical aspectsxHistoryy20th century.9203740 0aWorld politicsy1945-1989.954861 7aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism.9203741 7aHISTORY / Asia / Central Asia.9203742 0aTibet Autonomous Region (China)xHistoryy1951-9203743 0aTibet Autonomous Region (China)xForeign relationsy20th century.9203744 0aTibet Autonomous Region (China)xForeign public opinion, Western.9203745 0aTibet Autonomous Region (China)xStrategic aspects.9203746 0aIndiaxForeign relationszChina.9203747 0aChinaxForeign relationszIndia.9203748 0aUnited StatesxForeign relationsy1945-1953.9186209 0aUnited StatesxForeign relationsy1953-1961.91862101 aHalper, Stefan A.,eauthor.9203749  a = C.1 SDU  cGBE2lcc  c106938d106938  00102lcc406DS0786 H195 T2014708CGB9278780aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-08-21e2l0oDS786 H195 T 2014p1000369972r2025-08-21 00:00:00tC.1w2025-08-21yGBE