Freeing Tibet

Roberts, John B.

Freeing Tibet 50 years of struggle, resilience, and hope / [electronic resource] : John B. Roberts II, Elizabeth A. Roberts. - New York : AMACOM, c2009. - xxiii, 279 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index.

Part One. Struggle -- Warriors of the fortress of faith -- The tennis champion of Darjeeling -- The dharma beatniks and the island of the dead -- All tsampa eaters must stand together -- The Dalai Lama's great escape -- Eisenhower expands the covert war -- Hearts and minds -- America's secret Bay of Pigs -- Part Two. Resilience -- Wheels within wheels -- Cultural revolutions -- Nixon embraces China -- Counterculture to the rescue -- Part Three. Hope -- The Dalai Lama finds a middle way -- The 1990s: the Tibetan movement goes global -- The Tibetan national uprising of 2008 -- The last Dalai Lama? -- What is to be done to free Tibet?


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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