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Tibet's Last Stand?: The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response

Tibet's Last Stand?: The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response

Smith, Warren W.

Hardcover

Chinese HistoryGeneral Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0742566854
ISBN13: 9780742566859
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Dec 16 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book offers a definitive account of the origins and events of the 2008 Tibetan uprising, which began with peaceful demonstrations by monks of Lhasa's great monasteries on the anniversary of the 1959 revolt. Noted expert Warren W. Smith Jr. argues that the uprising was a widespread response to the conditions of Chinese rule over Tibet, which revealed much about Tibetan nationalism and even more about Chinese nationalism. Interpreting the Tibetan uprising as an attempt to spoil the Beijing Olympics, China's hard-line response was repression, patriotic education, and propaganda blaming the disturbances on the Dalai clique and hostile Western forces.

Smith contends that China's offensive is based upon a belief that China now has sufficient economic and political influence to make the world thoroughly revise its mistaken knowledge about the Tibet issue. He convincingly shows that far from becoming more lenient in response to Tibetan discontent, China has determined to eradicate Tibetan opposition internally and coerce the international community to conform to China's version of Tibetan history and reality.

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