Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War

by Carole McGranahan

Book Overview

In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United States. Decades later, the story of this resistance is only beginning to be told and has not yet entered the annals of Tibetan national history. In Arrested Histories, the anthropologist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822347717
• ISBN13: 9780822347712
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"