Between rhetoric and reality: nationalist China's Tibetan agenda during the second World War (1).

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

This paper makes use of both Chinese and English primary sources to reassess China's agendas concerning Tibet during the Second World War. Previous researches have suggested that the Japanese invasion of China proper and the emergence of a group of powers allied with China in its struggle against Japan provided Nationalist China with an opportunity to advance its claims to the "lost" border regions and restore China's past territorial glory. Scholarly works have also argued that, being a member of the "Great Four" after Pearl Harbor, the Chinese government talked volubly about restoring ...

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