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Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival (1999) PublicAffairs . ISBN 978-1-891620-18-8; Laird, Thomas. The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (2006) Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1827-5; Lin, Hsiao-ting (2011). Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49. UBC Press.
A. Tom Grunfeld asserts that the United States took advantage of the Dalai Lama's leaving Tibet by prodding its clandestinely funded Cold War International Commission of Jurists to prepare propagandistic reports attacking China. [55] In his 1994 book The International Commission of Jurists, Global Advocates for Human Rights, [56] Howard B ...
In 1942, the U.S. government told the government of Chiang Kai-shek that it had never disputed Chinese claims to Tibet. [59] In 1944, the USA War Department produced a series of seven documentary films on Why We Fight; in the sixth series, The Battle of China, Tibet is incorrectly called a province of China (as the Chinese officially referred ...
A book published in 1939 by a Swedish sinologist and linguist about the war in China placed Tibet as part of China. The Chinese government in the 1930s tried to claim superiority. [114] The USA also recognised Tibet as a province of China during this time as seen in the documentary film Why We Fight #6 The Battle of China produced by the USA ...
Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) [b] Chinese Communist Party Republic of China: Victory. Formation of the People's Republic of China; Nationalist government retreats to Taiwan; Battle of Chamdo (1950) People's Republic of China Tibet: Victory. People's Republic of China annexes Tibet; Korean War (1950–1953) North Korea China Soviet Union South ...
Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720) Battle of Chamdo or the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China This page was last edited on 20 ...
[22] [better source needed] The subsequent outbreak of the world wars and civil war in China caused distractions for the major powers and China, and the Tibetan government continued to exercise effective control over much of the historic lands of Tibet until 1950 despite endemic war with China on its eastern frontier during much of that period.
The book is an outcome of Patrick French's twenty years involvement with Tibetan people. Instead of the peaceful country that most people in the West think of, he finds a country with a long history of war and a complicated relationship with China. Most of all, he looks at how the recent history of Tibet has changed people's lives.