Sulmaan Wasif Khan 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 from empire-lite to a harder, heavier imperial structure. That change triggered long-lasting shifts in Chinese foreign policy. Moving from capital cities to far-flung mountain villages, from top diplomats to nomads crossing disputed...

Engels | 189 pagina's | The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill | 2015

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