Preface
Nomenclature and Transliteration
Introduction
1. A Protracted Agenda
2. The "Dalai Line"
3. A Time to Change
4. A New Phase
5. A Waiting Game
6. The Showdown
Epilogue: Tibet and the World, According to Beijing
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Xiaoyuan Liu is David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Virginia and Zijiang Professor at East China Normal University. His books include Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921-1945 (2004) and Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950 (2006).