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Beyond Shangri–La – America and Tibet`s Move into the Twenty–First Century: American Encounters/Global Interactions

Autor John Kenneth Knaus
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 noi 2012
Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. What was initially a distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s, when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance movement against the Chinese occupiers. The Tibetans fought to oust the Chinese and to maintain the presence of the current Dalai Lama and his direction of their country. In 1958, John Kenneth Knaus volunteered to serve in a major CIA program to support the Tibetans. For the next seven years, as an operations officer working from India, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., he cooperated with the Tibetan rebels as they utilized American assistance to contest Chinese domination and to attain international recognition as an independent entity.Since the late 1950s, the rugged resolve of the Dalai Lama and his people and the growing respect for their efforts to free their homeland from Chinese occupation have made Tibet’s political and cultural status a pressing issue in international affairs. So has the realization by nations including the United States that their own geopolitical interests would best be served by the defeat of the Chinese and the achievement of Tibetan self-determination. Beyond Shangri-La provides unique insight into the efforts of the U.S. government and committed U.S. citizens to support a free Tibet.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822352341
ISBN-10: 0822352346
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 22 illustrations, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 201 x 232 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria American Encounters/Global Interactions


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“Beyond Shangri-La is a valuable and highly informative contribution to understanding of both Tibet and the history of American foreign policy in Asia. Benefiting from the author’s personal experience with America’s Tibet policy, first as a CIA officer and later as an institutional historian, it gives often dramatic insights into the surprisingly crucial role of individual officials within government in shifts of policy and direction. It comes at a time when America’s relations with China are at a point of unprecedented importance for world affairs and when understanding the deep history of the difficult issues within that relationship—Tibet chief among them— is important to understanding and successfully navigating them.” Robert Barnett, author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories

"...this is a well-documented study of the complex America-China-Tibet triangle." Publishers Weekly


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Beyond Shangri-La provides unique insight into the efforts of the U.S. government and committed U.S. citizens to support a free Tibet.