Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into the Twenty-First CenturyBeyond Shangri La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U. S. representatives. What was initially a distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s, when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance movement against the Chinese occupiers. The Tibetans fought to oust the Chinese and to maintain the presence of the current Dalai Lama and his direction of