History of Modern Tibet (4 volumes) by Melvin C. Goldstein is considered the most authoritative and balanced history of modern Tibet. Goldstein uses both Chinese…
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Tag: India History
Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China – Part 1
This book by Gray Tuttle (hardcover 2005), a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University, argues that the West has wrongly portrayed the relations between…
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The Tiananmen Protests figures – Part 1
How many died when the military went in to clear protesters who refused to obey a martial law curfew? A recent book stated 478 dead…
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The Transformative Journey of Chinese Buddhism
When Buddhism spread to China from India it evolved to respond to the challenges posed by an older philosophy/ religion then existing in China known…
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Cameron Highlands 2022 – The meaning of life -searching for silence (Part 3)
No trip is complete without scones at the venerable Olde Smokehouse Hotel and Restaurant. This 2019 book The Frozen River gives us a glimpse of…
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The Indus & Ganges: The two mighty rivers
There are 2 major rivers in the Indian subcontinent. The Ganges, or Ganga the term used by native Indians, flows from upper India at the…
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Koh-i-Noor
There are three famous crowns of England. The official Crown of England is the St. Edward’s Crown. This is the Crown with which King Charles…
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Mission With Mountbatten
This diary is a must for all historians interested in the events that led to the Partition. Alan Campbell-Johnson at that time was the press…
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Books on China
The Gate to China by Michael Sheridan and From Rebel to Ruler by Tony Saich are two newly published 2021 books on China. Both authors…
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The Last Embassy
This 2021 book The Last Embassy is about a Dutch mission to Peking one year after the disastrous Lord McCartney mission. The Dutch were invited…
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