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China's Tibet?: Autonomy or Assimilation

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This groundbreaking book explores China's efforts to assimilate Tibet, in the process rewriting Tibetan history to conform to Beijing's goals. Warren Smith provides the historical context for understanding the current situation through an overview of China's actual—as opposed to its promised—policies toward Tibet over time. His clear-eyed appraisal of Chinese policy convincingly shows that the PRC's ultimate intention is assimilation rather than autonomy. The author argues that Beijing fears that any genuine autonomy or dialogue with the Dalai Lama will fuel renewed nationalism in "China's Tibet," as the Chinese leadership calls its possession.

The book highlights China's past and current propaganda on Tibet to demonstrate China's sensitivity and defensiveness regarding the legitimacy of its rule. It traces the history of Sino-Tibetan dialogue to show how China has tried to use it to defuse Tibetan exile and international criticism, while making no concessions in regard to Tibetan autonomy. In the absence of any solution, Smith advocates the promotion of Tibet's right to self-determination as the most viable strategy for sustaining international attention and maintaining the most essential elements of Tibetan national identity. Smith's thoroughly informed work will be valuable not only to Tibet experts and students, but also to the larger world of Tibet activists, sympathizers, and others attempting to understand China's policies.

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074253989X
ISBN-13

978-0742539891
Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date

May 16, 2008
Language

English
Dimensions

6.33 x 0.83 x 9.33 inches
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354 pages
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Warren Smith deserves a prize for this work. He has presented a clear-eyed, well-informed, and penetrating analysis of China's blatantly colonial policy in Tibet. If you want to understand the realities of the Tibet question, this book is a must-read. You'll never again hear the oft-repeated phrase 'China's Tibet' in quite the same way. (Robert Thurman, Columbia University)

A thorough . . . study of relations between the two entities over the last century. (May 2008 Library Journal)

Admirable because it lays out in jargon-free language the political and cultural nature of the China-Tibet relationship. It is further admirable because Warren Smith, who writes for the Tibetan Service of Radio Free Asia, is scrupulously fair, including in his pages complete policy statements from Beijing and the Dalai Lama's exile government. (July 2008 Wall Street Journal Asia)

Anyone who is a Tibet activist, a serious student of Tibetan Buddhism, or a history buff will find Smith's book indispensable. . . . What is truly fresh and original in China's Tibet?—and reveals Smith at his most penetrating and disturbing—is his analysis of China's greatest propaganda successes. . . . The tug of war between recorded fact and historical revisionism, autonomy and assimilation, Tibetan Buddhist culture and Chinese real estate, will continue while the rest of the world looks on from the sidelines. In the meantime, we should be very grateful that Warren Smith has kept a superb scorecard for us. (Tricycle Magazine)

Smith has extensive living experience in the region and does his research with great care. . . . Recommended. (CHOICE, November 2008)

This is a landmark study of China's efforts to fully subsume Tibet and to rewrite Tibetan history to conform to this official reality. Smith’s dispassionate, critical, and detailed account makes clear China’s goal of complete assimilation and the futility of the Dalai Lama’s policy to seek some kind of 'meaningful autonomy' for his country. (Jamyang Norbu, author of The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes)

In seven fluid chapters, the book covers recent Tibetan history, with an emphasis on Chinese propaganda and how Chinese leaders have viewed Tibet. . . . China’s Tibet? is essential for understanding how the Sino-Tibetan relationship became what it is today. . . . His clear-eyed analysis makes a very convincing case. (Far Eastern Economic Review)

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Anyone who is a Tibet activist, a serious student of Tibetan Buddhism, or a history buff will find Smith's book indispensable. What is truly fresh and original in China's Tibet?--and reveals Smith at his most penetrating and disturbing-- is his analysis of China's greatest propaganda successes. The tug of war between recorded fact and historical revisionism, autonomy and assimilation, Tibetan Buddhist culture and Chinese real estate, will continue while the rest of the world looks on from the sidelines. In the meantime, we should be very grateful that Warren Smith has kept a superb scorecard for us.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (May 16, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 354 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 074253989X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0742539891
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.34 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.33 x 0.83 x 9.33 inches

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Danny L. Thoms Jr.

Many interesting facts of China as it became one

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2014

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Purchased or a course, the book is outstanding. Easy to read, a very good book if you’re interested in China on details that are often left from other publications.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2008

The PRC accomplished its 1950-51 "Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" by means of armed invasion but also with promises of cultural, religious and even political autonomy. Most of those promises were contradicted by the intention to incorporate Tibet within the PRC's political system and to transform the Tibetan economy and society. China's promises ot preserve the Tibetan cultural and political systems were a temporayr tactic considered necessary in order to reduce Tibetan resistance to Tibet's incorporation within the Chinese state.
Since 1979 the Chinese Government and the Dalai Lama have engaged in a sporadic dialogue. On the Tibetan side this dialogue was about the political issue of Tibet and the nature of Tibetan autonomy. The Chinese side has denied that there are any unresolved political issues of Tibet and has tried to confine the dialogue to the personal future of the Dalai Lama.
This study reveals that the goal of China's policies in Tibet has always been assimilaiton rather than autonomy. China's current strategy in regard to Tibet is primarily a propaganda policy, of which the dialogue appears to be a part. China fears to allow any real autonomy in Tibet because of the threat of Tibetan separatism and therefore will not negotiate with the Dalai Lama about Tibet's future or allow him to play any role in Tibet. China will await the demise of the current Dalai Lama and appoint its own "patriotic" Dalai Lama to replace him. China will attempt to resolve the issue of Tibet, an issue it denies even exists, by means of repression of any and all aspects of Tibetan separatism and a policy of economic development that integrates Tibet more closely with China, buys the loyalyt of those Tibetans who benefit, and promotes and supports Chinese colonization and exploitation of Tibet's natural resources.
This book employs some of China's most notorious propaganda on Tibet to demonstrate China's extreme sensitivity and defensiveness in regard to the legitimacy of its rule over Tibet. This sensitivity precludes the allowance of any meaningful degree of autonomy due to the fear that autonomy might permit the resurgance of Tibetan religion, culture and nationalism. Tibet's separate naitonal identoty is a threat to China's territorial integrity and national security and therefore must be eliminated.
The book traces the history of Sino-Tibetan dialogue to show how China has tried to use that dialogue to defuse Tibetan exile and internaitonal criticism while making no concessions in regard to Tibetan autonomy. In the absence of any solution to the Tibet issue, the author recommends the promoiton of Tibet's right to naitonal self-determination as most capable of sustaining the international issue of Tibet and maintianing the most essential elements of Tibetan national identity.

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Jamyang Norbu

Impressive Work on China's Policies in Tibet

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2008

I read Warren Smith's book with much interest. To my knowledge no
specific work has been published dealing with China's efforts to
assimilate Tibet and to rewrite Tibetan history to conform to this new
reality. The chapters laying out the historical background are impressively
thorough. It is quite evident that Smith's understanding of Tibetan
history is not only broad and objective, but is appreciative of the
Tibetan intellectual point of view.

Smith's coverage of the present Sino-Tibetan dialogue, and the lack of
any kind of development in this regard, is probably one of the most
dispassionate, critical and detailed accounts we have to date. This
alone will make the book worth reading for many students of Tibetan
affairs. Smith makes clear that not only is there no hope of "genuine
autonomy" for Tibet as the Dalai Lama has been advocating but that the
very idea of even a minimal autonomous status for Tibet was never one
that had ever been entertained with any degree of sincerity by Beijing,
even when the guarantee of autonomy was first undertaken by Chinese
leaders at the signing of the 17 Point Agreement in 1951. Smith
effectively underlines his contention with a hard-nosed exposition of
the doctrinal realities involved "The ultimate goal of
Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist nationalities doctrine was not
autonomy, but assimilation. Autonomy in Marxist-Leninist theory and
practice was a temporary tactic intended to reduce minorities'
resistance to incorporation into Communist states."

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Gogfather

Don't bother !

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2008

The author doesn't introduce anything new. It's the same old stuff that's pretty obvious to anyone with even a basic understanding of historic Sino-Tibet relations. The author's recommendation for Tibetans to declare independence and their right to self-determination is pure suicide. No country on earth will fight WWIII for Tibet. He'll have the blood of 100,000 dead Tibetans on his hands for his callous recommendation. Tibet has no petroleum and Tibet is no longer of strategic interest to the West since the British lost India. Skip this book. You already know the real answers.

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