Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
PLA in Lhasa and the Tibetan uprising (1951)
On the Mao’s China map as “Lhasa, 1951 and 1959”
26 Oct 1951 — The PLA marches into Lhasa under the Seventeen-Point Agreement. 10–20 Mar 1959 — Crowds surround the Norbulingka palace to keep the Dalai Lama from a Chinese army camp; he escapes on the 17th, and on the 20th the PLA shells the palace. The dead in Lhasa are put at roughly 2,000 to 10,000, a disputed range.
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- Tibet and Xinjiang under Mao (chapter 3 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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