{"product_id":"tibet-lezlee-brown-halper-9780199368365","title":"Tibet: An Unfinished Story","description":"Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, \u003cem\u003eLost Horizon\u003c\/em\u003e, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet also exercises immense \"soft power\" as one of the lenses through which the world views China. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book traces the origins and manifestations of the Tibetan myth, as propagated by Younghusband, Madam Blavatsky, Himmler, Acheson and Roosevelt. The authors discuss how, after WW2, Tibet-- isolated, misunderstood and with a tiny elite unschooled in political-military realities --- misread the diplomacy between its two giant neighbours, India and China, forlornly hoping London or Washington might intervene. China's People's Liberation Army sought nothing less than to deconstruct traditional Tibet, unseat the Dalai Lama and \"absorb\" this vast region into the People's Republic, and Lhasa succumbed to China's invasion in 1950. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on declassified CIA and Chinese documents, the authors reveal Mao's collusion with Stalin to subdue Tibet, double-dealing by Nehru, the brilliant diplomacy of Chou en Lai and how Washington see-sawed between the China lobby, who insisted there be no backing for an independent Tibet, and Presidents Truman and later Eisenhower, who initiated a covert CIA programme to support the Dalai Lama and resist Chinese occupation. It is an ignoble saga with few, if any, heroes, other than ordinary Tibetans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lezlee Brown Halper, Stefan Halper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199368368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199368365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/10\/2014 pg. 55","brand":"Lezlee Brown Halper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44522239787263,"sku":"9780199368365","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9f3357a-5e01-4ba6-9619-c040d516b689.jpg?v=1700156236","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tibet-lezlee-brown-halper-9780199368365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}