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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4, In the Eye of the Storm, 1957–1959. By Melvyn Goldstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 616 pp. ISBN: 9780520278554 (cloth).

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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4, In the Eye of the Storm, 1957–1959. By Melvyn Goldstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 616 pp. ISBN: 9780520278554 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2020

David G. Atwill*
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Penn State University
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020

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References

1 C. Goldstein, Melvyn and Rimpoche, Gelek, A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; C. Goldstein, Melvyn, A History of Modern Tibet: Volume 2, The Calm Before the Storm, 1951–1955 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; C. Goldstein, Melvyn, A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Most famous of these critiques is that posed by Matthew Akester in his review of volume 2. See Akester, “Review of A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951–1955 by Melvyn C. Goldstein,” Journal of the International Association of Tibet Studies, no. 4 (December 2008), http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#!jiats=/04/rev_goldstein/b1/.