1st Edition
Contemporary Tibet Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region
368 Pages
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Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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The subject of Tibet is highly controversial, and Tibet, as a political entity, is defined differently from source to source and audience to audience. The editors of this path-breaking, multidisciplinary study have gathered some of the leading scholars in Tibetan and ethnic studies to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Tibet question. "Contemporary Tibet" explores essential themes and issues... Read more
List of Tables; 1. Introduction: The Tibet Question in Contemporary Perspective, Barry Sautman and June Teufel Dreyer; Part I. Politics and Representation; 2. Beyond the Collaborator-Martyr Model: Strategies of Compliance, Opportunism, and Opposition Within Tibet, Robert Barnett; 3. The Dalai Lama's Autonomy Proposal: A One-Sided Wish? He Baogang; 4. The Question of Tibet and the Politics of the "Real," Amy Mountcastle; 5. Indirect Representation Versus a Democratic System: Relative Advantages for Resolving the Tibet Question, Wang Lixiong; Part II. Economic Development; 6. Economic Development in Tibet Under the People's Republic of China, June Teufel Dreyer; 7. Economic Policy and Practice in Contemporary Tibet, Dawa Norbu; 8. Market Formation and Transformation: Private Business in Lhasa, Hu Xiaojiang and Miguel A. Salazar; Part III. Society and Identity; 9. The Development and Change in Rural Tibet: Problems and Adaptations, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, Cynthia M. Beall, and Phuntsog Tsering; 10. Riding High on the Manchurian Dream: Three Paradigms in the Construction of the Tibetan Question, P. Christiaan Klieger; 11. "Demographic Annihilation" and Tibet, Barry Sautman; 12. Life in Lara Village, Tibet, Yu Changjiang; Part IV. The International Dimension; 13. The Tibet Question and the West: Issues of Sovereignty, Identity, and Representation, Dibyesh Anand; 14. The Tibet Question: A New Cold War, Xu Mingxu and Yuan Feng; 15. Tibet and the United States, A. Tom Grunfeld.
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Barry Sautman, June Teufel Dreyer
