About the Book: A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4: In the Eye of the Storm,
1957-1959
It is not possible to understand contemporary politics between China and the
Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950s, especially the
events that occurred in 1957-59. The fourth volume of Melvyn C. Goldsteins
History of Modern Tibet series, In the Eye of the Storm, provides new
perspectives on Sino-Tibetan history during the period leading to the Tibetan
Uprising of 1959. The volume also reassesses issues that have been widely
misunderstood as well as stereotypes and misrepresentations in the popular realm
and in academic literature (such as in Maos