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Tragedy in crimson : how the Dalai Lama conquered the world but lost the battle with China
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"Tragedy in Crimson" is award-winning journalist Tim Johnson's extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet.
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- Creator
- Tim Johnson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Nation Books, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xv, 333 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781568586014, 1568586019
- OCLC
- ocn535492246
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-319) and index.
- The big gamble -- On Tibet's periphery -- Riding the rails to Tibet -- Holy city or devil's land -- Over the Himalayas -- Dharamsala -- The Karmapa -- The princess -- Wolves at the door -- Getting religion -- A "simple Buddhist monk" -- Thwarting the Dalai Lama -- Hollywood versus Wal-Mart -- Epilogue: China's "totally correct" policies
Subjects
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-.
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- -- Political and social views.
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- -- Travel -- United States.
- Johnson, Tim, 1957- -- Travel -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- China.
- China -- Relations -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
- China -- Politics and government -- 1949-