Acknowledgements
We would like especially to thank our co-authors and translators who made this book possible, especially for their extraordinary patience with our delays and their generous receptivity to our endless suggestions and requests. Our thanks are also due to Hildegard Diemberger, Uradyn Bulag, and Caroline Humphrey for their insights and dedication to the initial stage of the project, to Patricia Radder and Irene Jager at Brill for their helpfulness and patience, and to the International Association for Tibetan Studies and their Mongolian counterparts in Ulaanbaatar for convening the seminar at which this project began.
We are especially grateful to Orgyan Nyima for giving us permission to republish large sections from the invaluable collection of oral histories that he conducted, translated and published in Living and Dying in Modern Tibet, and for his help in clarifying certain sections for us.
The primary documents in this volume were translated by the authors of the corresponding chapters or as indicated in the relevant introductions, apart from Documents 2 and 3, which were translated by Yi Qin. Chapter 6 was kindly translated by Matthew Akester and Document 5 was generously provided by the Department of Information and International Relations, Dharamsala.
We were helped greatly by those who gave us permission to use illustrations, whose names are noted below the relevant images, or whom, regrettably, we were unable to locate. Maps were generously created for this volume with great skill by Rémi Chaix. Thanks too to Emilia Sulek for providing the correct Tibetan name for the Chinese placename Geketang and to Wu Wing Yee for help with the introduction. The Helen Clay Frick Foundation, the HBH Fund and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University generously provided support throughout this project.