Author: Petech, Luciano.
Title: China and Tibet in the early XVIIIth century. History of the establishment of Chinese protectorate in Tibet. 2nd rev. edition.
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1972. [VIII],309 pp. 2 fold. b./w. maps of Tibet & China. Orig. softcover (printed wrappers). 8vo. - Cover sl. foxed / duststained. (Monographies du T'oung Pao, Monographie I). Very rare original copy. Second revised edition of the first edition of 1950. - - Luciano Petech (8 June 1914, Trieste - 29 September 2010, Rome) was an Italian scholar of Himalayan history and the early relations between Tibet, Nepal and Italy. He was Chair of History of Eastern Asia at the University of Rome from 1955 to 1984. He was a student of the Italian explorer, academic, and scholar Giuseppe Tucci.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia China Tibet Himalaya Etnografie Azië