Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • pt. 1: The setting. A localized regime, national image, and territorial fragmentation ; Professed frontier policy, policy planners, and imagined sovereignty
  • pt. 2: The prewar decade, 1928-37. The unquiet Southwestern borderlands ; The mission to Tibet ; "Commissioner" politics
  • pt. 3: The wartime period, 1938-45. Building a nationalist-controlled state in Southwest China ; The issue of the China-India roadway via Tibet ; Rhetoric, reality, and wartime China's Tibetan concerns
  • pt. 4: The postwar period, 1945-49. Postwar frontier planning vis-à-vis non-Han separatist movements ; The Sera Monastery incident
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary of names and terms.