When the iron bird flies : China's secret war in Tibet /
"When the Iron Bird Flies, by Jianglin Li, breaks this decades-long silence to reveal for the first time a comprehensive and explosive picture of the six years that would prove definitive in modern Tibetan and Chinese history. The CCP referred to the campaign as "suppressing the Tibetan re...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- The storm rising in the mountains
- Rebellion sparked in the year of the Fire Monkey
- Lithang : the fallen Buddha of the future
- Chatreng : the broken mala
- Nyarong : the wrath of the dragoness
- The first bend in the Yellow River
- Tibet : occupation and "reform"
- The Chamdo pilot project and "six years without change"
- Diplomatic clashes : Zhou Enlai, Nehru and the Dalai Lama
- Obscure events in 1957
- Gunshots in the Golok grasslands
- The Yellow River massacre
- Yulshul in flames
- Bloodbath at Drongthil Gulch
- The crossed-sword banner at Drigu Lake
- The 1958 "religious reform movement"
- Lhasa, the last hope
- "Lhasa is no more!"
- The battle of Lhoka
- From Namtso to Mitikha
- Encircling the plateau in the depths of winter
- The men who fell from the sky
- Chamdo's fight to the death
- The life-or-death journey
- When the iron horse raced across the plateau.