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Tibet's Last Stand?: The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response
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Tibet's Last Stand?: The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response Hardcover - 2009

by Smith, Warren

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Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2009. Hardcover. New. 320 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.00 inches.
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  • Title Tibet's Last Stand?: The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response
  • Author Smith, Warren
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st ed.
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, Delhi, India
  • Date 2009
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0742566854
  • ISBN 9780742566859 / 0742566854
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Library of Congress subjects Nationalism - China, Tibet (China) - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009029975
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.06

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This book offers a definitive account of the origins and events of the 2008 Tibetan uprising, which began with peaceful demonstrations by monks of Lhasa's great monasteries on the anniversary of the 1959 revolt. Noted expert Warren W. Smith Jr. argues that the uprising was a widespread response to the conditions of Chinese rule over Tibet, which revealed much about Tibetan nationalism and even more about Chinese nationalism. Interpreting the Tibetan uprising as an attempt to spoil the Beijing Olympics, China's hard-line response was repression, "patriotic education," and propaganda blaming the disturbances on the "Dalai clique" and "hostile Western forces." Smith contends that China's offensive is based upon a belief that China now has sufficient economic and political influence to make the world "thoroughly revise its mistaken knowledge" about the Tibet issue. He convincingly shows that far from becoming more lenient in response to Tibetan discontent, China has determined to eradicate Tibetan opposition internally and coerce the international community to conform to China's version of Tibetan history and reality.

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  • Choice, 06/01/2010, Page 0

About the author

Warren W. Smith Jr. is a researcher and writer with the Tibetan Service of Radio Free Asia.