LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .......................................... ix
PREFACE ........................................................ xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .............................................. xvii
NOTE ON ROMAN1ZATION .......................................... xix
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ......................................... xxi
GLOSSARY OF KEY PERSONS AND TERMS ........................... xxiii
Introduction: Tibetan Society on the Eve of
Incorporation into China ........................................ 1
PART ONE. THE ROAD TO A SINO-TIBETAN AGREEMENT
1. Chinese Perspectives: Radio Beijing ......................... 19
2. Tibetan Perspectives: Contacts with
the Chinese Communists ...................................... 41
3. Tibet Appeals to the United Nations ......................... 59
4. Negotiations with Beijing ................................... 82
5. The United States Intervenes ............................... 114
6. The Dalai Lama Returns to Lhasa ............................ 138
PART TWO. THE FIRST TWO YEARS'. CONFRONTATION AND ADJUSTMENT
7. Initial Contacts and Strategies ............................ 169
8. The Advance PLA Force Arrives in Lhasa ..................... 206
9. The Food Crisis ............................................ 244
10.The Panchen Lama and the People's Liberation Army .......... 265
11.First Steps toward Implementing the Seventeen-Point
Agreement .................................................. 301
12.The Tibetan People's Association ........................... 314
13.Turning to the Dalai Lama and Removing the Sitsab .......... 341
14.The Return of the Panchen Lama ............................. 385
PART THREE. COOPERATION AND CHANGE
15.Winds of Change ............................................ 399
16.Conflict within the Communist Party in Tibet ............... 422
17.Tibet's First Steps toward Socioeconomic Reform ............ 454
18.Events in India ............................................ 464
19.The Dalai Lama Goes to Beijing ............................. 478
20.The Dalai Lama in Beijing .................................. 491
21.The Return to Lhasa ........................................ 523
22.Conclusions ................................................ 541
APPENDIX A. LOBSANG SAMDEN's 1952 LETTER TO TSIPON
SHAKABPA .......................................... 551
APPENDIX B. KASHAG'S 1953 EDICT REFORMING DEBTS
IN TIBET .......................................... 553
APPENDIX C. AGREEMENT OF THE SECRET RESISTANCE
ORGANIZATION IN INDIA, 1954 ....................... 561
APPENDIX D. LIST OF CORRECT TIBETAN SPELLINGS ................. 565
REFERENCES .................................................... 583
INDEX ......................................................... 605
ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURES
1. Eighteenth Army Corps troops training for the Chamdo
campaign .................................................... 39
2. The Surkhang family ......................................... 56
3. The five Tibetan negotiators: Sambo, Kheme Dzasa, Ngabö,
Lhautara, Thubden Lengmon ................................... 97
4. Tsipön Namseling ........................................... 141
5. Zhang Jin gwu riding from Yadong to Lhasa .................. 157
6. High officials at a meeting ................................ 196
7. PLA troops marching around the Barkor after entering
Lhasa ...................................................... 207
8. PLA camped in tents near the Lhasa River ................... 211
9. Zhang Jingwu giving alms to the monks in a Lhasa
monastery .................................................. 212
10.Chinese and Tibetan government officials at a banquet
celebrating the "peaceful liberation" of Tibet ............. 227
11.Building the road from Chamdo to Lhasa ..................... 247
12.A meeting of a few aristocrats to discuss grain
procurement for the PLA .................................... 255
13.PLA opening new fields in Lhasa ............................ 258
14.The first yield of trial Chinese radishes .................. 259
15.Fan Ming, Panchen Lama, Tashi, in Xining ................... 284
16.Joint celebration of arrival of the Northwest army's
troops ..................................................... 297
17.Tibetan army troops with regimental flag ................... 304
18.Teaching PLA troops Tibetan before going to Tibet .......... 310
19.Panchen Lama at his first ceremonial meeting with
the Dalai Lama ............................................. 393
20.Dalai Lama meets with the Panchen Lama in Lhasa ............ 593
21.The road from Sichuan open for traffic ..................... 419
22.Panchen Lama, Lia Hanshan, Fan Ming ........................ 488
23.Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama voting in the National
People's Congress .......................................... 493
24.National People's Congress meeting ......................... 496
25.Tibetan New Year's celebration ............................. 506
MAPS
1. China ..................................................... XXXI
2. Central Tibet ............................................ XXXII
3. Kham .................................................... xxxiii
4. Lhasa City, ca. 1950s .................................... xxxiv
|
