Columbia University Press, October Date: 1999. Hardcover. Used - Good. Hardcover 1999. Columbia University Press ISBN 0231118147 9780231118149 [US]

New, trivial shelf wear (from stock of closed bookstore); Orders received by noon Eastern Time ship same day [6 days/wk] Date: 1999. Columbia University Press ISBN 0231118147 9780231118149 [US]

ISBN10: 0231118147, ISBN13: 9780231118149, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Since 1950, Tibet has been sandwiched between the heavyweights of Asian geopolitics: Britain, absolving itself of its colonial dominion; India, finding its legs as a newly independent nation; China, seeking to simultaneously consolidate its new communist regime and engender a "motherland"; and the United States, striving to contain the perceived threat of international communism. Tsering Shakya here gives a balanced, blow-by-blow account of Tibet's desperate attempts to maintain her independence and safeguard her cultural identity.The Dragon in the Land of Snows provides the first detailed account of the behind-the-scenes political developments in Tibet and the Tibetan, Chinese, and British personalities involved; the first complete account of the CIA's involvement in Tibet and the establishment of a secret military base in the Nepalese Himalayas; the first description of Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's involvement following the Chinese invasion, and his failure to recognize the truth of what was happening in Tibet; the first account of the power struggles during the Cultural Revolution and of the mass uprising against the Chinese that has remained secret until now; the first detailed account of the negotiations between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government during the late 1970s and early 1980s; and the first full ...