Panel 31: Tibet in a Changing World: Responses to the Collapse of the Qing Empire and the Rise of the Nation-State

 PANEL 31: TIBET IN A CHANGING WORLD: RESPONSES TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE QING EMPIRE AND THE RISE OF THE NATION-STATE

WEDNESDAY 24th JULY

Convenors: Michael van Walt van Praag and Sergius L. Kuzmin

9:30-10:00 Tibet as a State: Historical facts and international law

Sergey Kuzmin

10:00-10:30 The demise of the Qing empire and the advent of the nation-state: the transformations of Tibet, Mongolia and China

Michael van Walt van Praag

10:30 – 11.00 Tea/coffee
11.00-11:30 The Mongol-Tibetan Treaty and Domestic Politics in Mongolia

Makoto Tachibana

11:30-12:00 Chasing the Butcher’s Shadow: The legacy of Zhao ErfengSichuan’s Policies in Kham

Scott Relyea

12:00-12:30 Title: Russian Spy, Tibetan Emissary, Double Agent or Pan-Buddhist Dreamer? Agvan Dorjieff and his Historical Mission Reconsidered

Nikolay Tsyrempilov