About the Book: A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend,
1955-1957
It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and
the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950s. The third
volume in Melvyn Goldsteins History of Modern Tibet series, The Calm before the
Storm, examines the critical years of 1955 through 1957. During this period, the
Preparatory Committee for a Tibet Autonomous Region was inaugurated in Lhasa,
and a major Tibetan uprising occurred in Sichuan Province. Jenkhentsisum, a
Tibetan anti-communist émigré group, emerged as an important player with secret
links to Indian Intelligence, the Dalai Lamas Lord Chamberlain,