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

"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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Khan, Sulmaan Wasif
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Collection:New Cold War history.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.