China Occupies Tibet
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges, Communism, Communists, Human Rights
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: China, Tibet
- Date: October 7, 1950
Article abstract: Although the communist Chinese claimed that Tibet had always been part of China, the military invasion and subsequent immigration of ethnic Chinese caused massive dislocations of population and culture.
Summary of Event
No two countries on earth could have been geographically and historically closer, yet ideologically further apart, than Tibet and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1950. After more than a millennium of cultural and political development, Tibet had evolved into a theocracy whose head of government was regarded as...
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