This book offers a reinterpretation of the early encounters between the new Chinese Communist government, the Tibetan authorities, and the Tibetan population, as well as the gradual introduction of Leninist ideology on the Tibetan Plateau between 1949 and 1951a decisive period for understanding the modern Tibetan question. Drawing primarily on official and internal sources published or preserved in the Peoples Republic of China, most of them previously unused in academic research, this study sheds new light on the complex political dynamics and ideological transformations that shaped Tibets integration into the PRC.
Alex Raymond, Ph.D. (EHESS, Paris, 2017), is Associate Researcher at CECMC and CESPRA, Paris. He has published extensively on the PRCs Tibet policies in the 1950s, including "Mao, the CCP, and the Tibetan Question in 19491950" (Brill, 2020) and Regarding Maos Alleged Speech about the Dalai Lama in 1956 (The China Quarterly, 2024).
