Demystifying Tibet: History, Culture, People From Its Seventh-Century Origins to the Present Day - Softcover

An accessible and concise one-volume complete history of Tibet from the seventh-century origins of the Tibetan state to the Chinese colony of today. Historian and China expert Lee Feigon cuts through the romanticism that surrounds the Shangri-La of Western fantasy - at a time when Tibet is in danger of losing its cultural identity under Chinese rule. Feigon chronicles Tibet's history and society from the seventh-century origins of the Tibetan state through Mongol and Manchu rule in China and the advent of Western imperialism to that of Communist China - and the achievements of Tibetan secular and religious leaders down to the Great Fourteenth Dalai Lama of today.

Lee Feigon is chair of the east Asian Studies department and Professor of History at Colby College, Maine. He has written extensively on Chinese history and politics.