“A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3, The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957” By Melvyn C. Goldstein

The third volume in the History of Modern Tibet series was published in December 2013 by University of California Press. “A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3, The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957” is from heavyweight Tibet scholar Melvyn C. Goldstein and looks at the events that happened in Tibet in the critical years 1955 – 1957.
From the UC Press website:

During this period, the Preparatory Committee for a Tibet Autonomous Region was inaugurated in Lhasa, and a major Tibetan uprising occurred in Sichuan Province. Jenkhentsisum, a Tibetan anti-communist émigré group, emerged as an important player with secret links to Indian Intelligence, the Dalai Lama’s Lord Chamberlain, the United States, and Taiwan. And in Tibet, Fan Ming, the acting head of the CCP’s office in Lhasa, launched the “Great Expansion,” which recruited many thousands of Han Cadres to Lhasa in preparation for beginning democratic reforms, only to be stopped decisively by Mao Zedong’s “Great Contraction” which sent them back to China and ended talk of reforms in Tibet for the foreseeable future. In Volume III, Goldstein draws on never-before seen Chinese government documents, published and unpublished memoirs and diaries, and invaluable in-depth interviews with important Chinese and Tibetan participants (including the Dalai Lama) to offer a new level of insight into the events and principal players of the time.

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