Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands

216 Pages·2015·3.049 MB·English

by  Sulmaan Wasif Khan

Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy
The New Cold War History
Odd Arne Westad, editor
This series focuses on new interpretations of the Cold War era
made possible by the opening of Soviet, East European, Chinese,
and other archives. Books in the series based on multilingual and
multiarchival research incorporate interdisciplinary insights and
new conceptual frameworks that place historical scholarship in a
broad, international context.
Muslim,
Trader,
Nomad,
Spy
China’s Cold War and the People
of the Tibetan Borderlands
sulmaan wasif khan
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For ABK,
fellow wanderer.
And for my parents,
Zeba and Wasif,
who gave me the gift
of books.
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Contents
Acknowledgments, xi
Note on Sources, xvii
Cast of Characters, xix
Chronology of Main Events, xxiii
Prologue, 1
1 The Road to Lhasa, 9
2 Imperial Crises, Imperial Diplomacy, 38
3 Border Crossers, 60
The Sino-Nepali Frontier
4 Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy, 86
The Sino-Indian Frontier
epilogue Worlds Shattered, Worlds Reforged, 116
Notes, 137
Bibliography, 169
Index, 177
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Maps
1 Ethnolinguistic groups in China, 18
2 The Tibetan plateau and Chinese cartography, 32
3 Regional divisions of the Tibetan plateau, 63
4 The Sino-Nepali border, 78
5 The Sino-Indian boundary dispute, 91
6 The western sector of the disputed Sino-Indian boundary
and the Sino-Pakistani border, 131