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Imperial Crises, Imperial Diplomacy
2015This chapter examines how the Dalai Lama's departure from Lhasa sparked a crisis and caused the People's Republic of China to change from empire-lite to a harder, heavier imperial structure. When the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, it resulted in a flurry of rebellions across Tibet and revealed the weakness of the Chinese state in the region.
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Chapter 1 analyzes common tropes—the “graveyard of empires,” the Great Game, a place of disease and squalor—used to describe Afghanistan in order to highlight the ways in which memory-making and representation have contributed to mystifying the country and its peoples.
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