Chronology of Major Events With Particular Attention to the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

Stéphane Gros (1)

1 CEH - Centre d'Études Himalayennes

This chronology provides a selection of major events of global and local significance: it foregrounds some key historical events to convey a sense of how eastern Tibet, and Kham in particular, has been shaped by various actors in conjunction with fluctuating political, economic, and cultural forces of different scales and intensity. 1 It focuses on the period from the mid-nineteenth century, during which Kham became a contentious zone, to the present. The first section of the chronology, however, starts in the seventeenth century because of the historical importance of this period and its relevance for later events.

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Histoire

Stéphane Gros. Chronology of Major Events With Particular Attention to the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands. Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, pp.19-33, 2019, ⟨10.5117/9789463728713_chron⟩. ⟨hal-02417163⟩