Research Catalog

Title

Muslim, trader, nomad, spy : China's Cold War and the people of the Tibetan borderlands / Sulmaan Wasif Khan.

Author

Khan, Sulmaan Wasif

Publication

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xxiv, 189 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"What Chinese policymakers confronted in Tibet, Khan argues, was not a 'third world' but a 'fourth world' problem: Beijing was dealing with peoples whose ways were defined by statelessness. As it sought to tighten control over the restive borderlands, Mao's China moved from empire-lite to a harder, heavier imperial structure. That change triggered long-lasting shifts in Chinese foreign policy. Moving from capital cities to far-flung mountain villages, from top diplomats to nomads crossing disputed boundaries in search of pasture, this book shows Cold War China as it has never been seen before and reveals the deep influence of the Tibetan crisis on the political fabric of present-day China"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

The new Cold War history

Uniform Title

New Cold War history.

Subjects

• Statelessness
• Borderlands
• China
• Nepal
• India
• Imperialism
• History
• China > Foreign relations > China > Tibet Autonomous Region
• China > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Borderlands > China > History > 20th century
• China > Foreign relations > 1949-1976
• Statelessness > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History > 20th century
• 1900 - 1999
• Cold War
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Foreign relations > China
• Nepal > Foreign relations > 20th century
• Cold War (1945-1989)
• Diplomatic relations
• Borderlands > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History > 20th century
• India > Foreign relations > 1947-1984
• Imperialism > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Cast of characters -- Chronology of main events -- Prologue -- The road to Lhasa -- Imperial crises, imperial diplomacy -- Border crossers : the Sino-Nepali frontier -- Muslim, trader, nomad, spy : the Sino-Indian frontier -- Epilogue: Worlds shattered, worlds reforged.

Call Number

JFD 15-1924

ISBN

• 9781469621104
• 146962110X
• 9781469621111 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014037017

OCLC

893452578

Author

Khan, Sulmaan Wasif, author.

Title

Muslim, trader, nomad, spy : China's Cold War and the people of the Tibetan borderlands / Sulmaan Wasif Khan.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The new Cold War history

New Cold War history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Research Call Number

JFD 15-1924