| ID | 152034 |
| Title Proper | Tethering Tibet |
| Other Title Information | recent Chinese historiography and Liu Shengqi in Lhasa, 1945–1949 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Cathcart, Adam |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Before Liu Shengqi (柳陞祺) became the early PRC's foremost historian of Tibet, he was an English-language secretary in Lhasa for the Nationalist Government's Commission on Mongolia and Tibet. His travels and assessment of Han-Tibetan relations in and around Lhasa provide a unique perspective on Tibet's tenuous relationship with the Chinese central government from 1945 until 1949. With the 2010 publication of Liu's recollections in Lhasa (in Chinese), a new window is opened on the literature on Tibet's history -- and assertions of Guomindang power in the region -- in the period just preceding the traumatic collision with Maoism. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asian Affairs Vol. 48, No.1; Mar 2017: p.75-89 |
| Journal Source | Asian Affairs Vol: 48 No 1 |
| Key Words | Tibet ; Lhasa ; Republican China ; Liu Shengqi ; Shen Zonglian ; PRC Historiography |