Dec 27, 2009

Salem on History | China Occupies Tibet

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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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Salem on History | China Occupies Tibet

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