Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War is an exciting and important new work from historical anthropologist Carole McGranahan, who focuses on the often overlooked guerilla resistance organized by Tibetans against the People's Republic of China between 1956 and 1974. The surviving members of the major resistance group who carried out this struggle, “Four Rivers, Six Ranges” (Chu bzhi gangs drug), live in Tibetan exile communities throughout the world but are not publicly recognized as veterans. The resistance is often relegated to brief overviews or footnotes in popular Western-language histories of modern Tibet, and is absent from accounts of modern history in Tibetan exile communities. However, the resistance was a considerable one, lasting for almost two decades until the Dalai Lama convinced its members to lay down their weapons. Veterans estimate there were over ten thousand soldiers based in exile, and tens of thousands...

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