"An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the Tibet question in contemporary perspective / Barry Sautman and June Teufel Dreyer -- Beyond the collaborator-martyr model: strategies of compliance, opportunism, and opposition within Tibet / Robert Barnett -- The Dalai Lama's autonomy proposal: a one-sided wish? / He Baogang -- The question of Tibet and the politics of the "real" / Amy Mountcastle -- Indirect representation versus a democratic system: relative advantages for resolving the Tibet question / Wang Lixiong -- Economic development in Tibet under the People's Republic of China / June Teufel Dreyer -- Economic policy and practice in contemporary Tibet / Dawa Norbu -- Market formation and transformation: private business in Lhasa / Hu Xiaojiang and Miguel A. Salazar -- Development and change in rural Tibet: problems and adaptations / Melvyn C. Goldstein ... [et al.] -- Riding high on the Manchurian dream: three paradigms in the construction of the Tibetan question / P. Christiaan Klieger -- "Demographic annihilation" and Tibet / Barry Sautman -- Life in Lara village, Tibet / Yu Changjiang -- The Tibet question and the West: issues of sovereignty, identity, and representation / Dibyesh Anand -- The Tibet question: a new cold war / Xu Mingxu and Yuan Feng -- Tibet and the United States / A. Tom Grunfeld.