For the past five decades the plight of the Tibetan people under Chinese occupation has been steadily garnering more and more media attention. To capitalize on this attention both the Tibetan Government in Exile and the People's Republic of China (PRC) have honed the arguments supporting their respective positions. However these arguments, while based on historical facts, are modern day constructs with each party putting forth their own interpretations of the past. To reconcile the modern day realities of the Sino-Tibetan conflict, Elliot Sperling a researcher at the Washington based think-tank East-West Center, set out to provide the reader a detailed examination of the major assertions by each party and the primary sources of historical information most often cited. In his book The Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics, Sperling elucidates new details and insights regarding the Sino-Tibetan conflict by systematically examining original language documents dating back to......

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Title: The Tibet-China Conflict: History And Polemics - A Critical Review
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