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Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region
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Description: The subject of Tibet is highly controversial, and Tibet, as a political entity, is defined differently from source to source and audience to audience. The editors of this pathbreaking, multidisciplinary study have gathered some of the leading scholars in Tibetan and ethnic studies to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Tibet question.
Contemporary Tibet explores essential themes and issues concerning modern Tibet. It presents fresh material from various political viewpoints and data from original surveys and field research. The contributors consider such topics as representations and sovereignty, economic development and political conditions, the exile movement and human rights, historical legacies and international politics, identity issues and the local society. The individual chapters provide historical background as well as a general framework to examine Tibet's present situation in world politics, the relationship with China and the West, and prospects for the future.
Selected Contents:
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1. Introduction: The Tibet Question in Contemporary Perspective, Barry Sautman and June Teufel Dreyer
Part I. Politics and Representation
2. Beyond the Collaborator-Martyr Model: Strategies of Compliance, Opportunism, and Opposition Within Tibet, Robert Barnett
3. The Dalai Lama's Autonomy Proposal: A One-Sided Wish? He Baogang
4. The Question of Tibet and the Politics of the "Real", Amy Mountcastle
5. Indirect Representation Versus a Democratic System: Relative Advantages for Resolving the Tibet Question, Wang Lixiong
Part II. Economic Development
6. Economic Development in Tibet Under the People's Republic of China, June Teufel Dreyer
7. Economic Policy and Practice in Contemporary Tibet, Dawa Norbu
8. Market Formation and Transformation: Private Business in Lhasa, Hu Xiaojiang and Miguel A. Salazar
Part III. Society and Identity
9. The Development and Change in Rural Tibet: Problems and Adaptations, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, Cynthia M. Beall, and Phuntsog Tsering
10. Riding High on the Manchurian Dream: Three Paradigms in the Construction of the Tibetan Question, P. Christiaan Klieger
11. "Demographic Annihilation" and Tibet, Barry Sautman
12. Life in Lara Village, Tibet, Yu Changjiang
Part IV. The International Dimension
13. The Tibet Question and the West: Issues of Sovereignty, Identity, and Representation, Dibyesh Anand
14. The Tibet Question: A New Cold War, Xu Mingxu and Yuan Feng
15. Tibet and the United States, A. Tom Grunfeld
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Comment(s): "Dreyer and Sautman bring together a rich collection of articles by leading scholars in the field analyzing Tibet's current situation from political, economic, and social perspectives. The book comes together around the multifaceted Tibet Question on which it provides a balanced consideration that transgresses the Tibet/China divide with solid and well-supported assessments of such issues as economic conditions in Tibet, the effects of political reform, and the nature of Tibetan autonomy. There are few books in the field that take such a reasoned approach. This book is a welcome and much needed contribution." -- Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies, Hamilton College
"This is the best book so far written on contemporary Tibet. It is broad-ranging, balanced, fair, judicious, and scholarly. It is broad-ranging in that it covers political, economic, social, and demographic problems, as well as those relevant to international relations and images of Tibet. It is balanced and fair in that it takes account of all views on this highly controversial topic. It is scholarly and judicious in its extraordinary detail and insight, with virtually all contributors already published authorities on contemporary and modern Tibet." -- Colin Mackerras, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University
"These fifteen often fascinating essays bring together the perspectives of top Tibet experts. Five of the contributions cover different aspects of current Tibetan politics and culture. The seminal questions of whether the main issues are more political or more cultural, and whether Tibetan culture is conducive to modernization, are addressed. Various other chapters present a range of policy options, including some that will be controversial, but nonetheless thought-provoking -- as, indeed, is the entire volume. The analyses and findings will be of interest both to the lay persons and advanced scholars in the field." -- James D. Seymour, Columbia University
Review(s): This is an ambitious project and an important and stimulating academic work. Asian Affairs
    
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