Golden Key · Seventeen Articles Agreement

Author: Zhou Aiming
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: No matter who you are or what position you stand on, as long as you talk about Tibet or pay attention to the Tibetan people, you cannot avoid this agreement. For old Tibet, the "Seventeen Points Agreement" was an end; for the birth of modern Tibet, it was a new beginning. Half a century has passed, and both domestically and internationally, due to differing standpoints, opinions on this "agreement" remain divided. However, no matter who you are or what position you stand on, as long as you talk about Tibet or pay attention to the Tibetan people, you cannot avoid this agreement. For old Tibet, the "Seventeen Points Agreement" was an end; for the birth of modern Tibet, it was a new beginning. Regardless of anything else, it remains a milestone in Tibetan history. Therefore, as two young people who have not been engaged in Tibetan studies for too long, we share the same motivation: to use the materials we have collected over the past decade, adopt the method of focusing on actors' strategies within a realistic political framework, and restore the signing of the "Seventeen Points Agreement" to an international platform, thereby offering as academic an evaluation of this historical event as possible. Of course, we hope that readers will gain something from reading this book. As for our views, of course, they only represent ourselves.