Tibet: The Truth (A Political History)

also important to note was that mao avoided battle with the japs, leaving the work to the kmt, saving his energies for the coming final phase of the civil war. what a patriot mao was!

clever argument except that mao, after the long march, said china's only external debt was to tibet. he also admitted there were no chinese in tibet before the invasion.

@mispistoleros
To your point "If China owned Tibet, there would certainly be no point in sending an army to conquer it," actually The communism party used army to "conquer" the rest of China too, like Beijing, Shanghai,etc. I hope you're not so daft in recognizing there must be fight in any civil war. Did the Northern part of the US send army to conquer the Southern part of the US in American civil war? Sure it did, then TX, LA, AL are not parts of the US!!! Thanks for telling us.

g007
Of course we are not going to have dialogue with person like you who has no brain. A person like you is not good for China and not good for Tibet either. So keep hatred ang greed for yourself they will kill you eventually.

what have i lied about?

mispp
your continued distortion of chinese history will never bring fuckshit dalai lama back. your lies will only make the our hatred towards your fuckshit even stronger !!
how can we have a dialogue with a bunch of lying bastards ?

Given the mutability of Chinese nationalisms territorial claims, it should not come as a surprise that the ROC, and then also the CCP, accepted, 1911-1942, that Taiwan was not part of China, that Taiwanese should fight a nat'l liberation movement against imperial Japan. Chinese today are not taught about the actual history of Taiwan and its relations with imperial dynasties, the ROC and the CCP. They have no idea how recently invented is the CCP fiction that Taiwan has always been part of China

Modern Chinese Han nationalism silently lays claim to the conquered territories of that recent expansionist Manchu empire. It is an imperial nationalism presented in a discourse of anti-imperialism.

Edward Friedman,
"In the Mao era, Mao sought to restore Chinese glory and negate the previous century of humiliations, a political category invented to hide the fact that the Manchu empire (Qing dynasty), which fell only in 1911, actually was one of the most territorially aggrandizing gunpowder empires in human history. Its armies more than doubled the territory that had been previously controlled by the Sincized Ming empire that the non-Han Manchus had replaced in the 17 th century.

you see, nothing is written in stone.

F. Spencer Chapman questions the validity of China's purported authority in deposing the Dalai Lama twice in the early 20th century, noting that, at the same time China "deposed" the 13th Dalai Lama, it made claims not only over Tibet, but also over Nepal and Bhutan.