阿尔贝特•艾廷格于1952年出生在卢森堡一个工业小镇迪弗当日，是一名矿工的儿子。在德国特里尔大学学习历史、德语和罗曼语，获哲学博士，以优异的成绩从该校毕业。他辗转卢森堡和德国特里尔市之间在中学、大学教学三十多年。
近年来，作者撰写了涉藏题材的两部专著和许多文章。
Albert Ettinger
was born in 1952 in Differdange, a small industrial town of the Luxembourg steel area, as the first son of a miner. Initially, he studied History, then pursued German and Romance Languages Studies in Trier (Germany), which he completed by a Ph.D. with the rating summa cum laude.
For more than thirty years, he worked as a high school and college teacher in Luxembourg and Trier.
He is married and father of two children.
In recent years, Albert Ettinger wrote two books and many articles about Tibet and the Tibet conflict.

本书为国外藏学研究成果，2015年先由法兰克福Zambon出版社以德文出版，作者阿尔伯特•艾廷格（Albert Ettinger）系卢森堡著名藏学家，该书系统梳理了“问题”由来，对其何以漫及国际的背景和历程做了独到叙述和分析，结合中国统一多民族国家的历史文化传统特点，展望所谓“问题”渐次式微的前景，公允得出西藏自古以来是中国领土一部分的客观结论。本书视角独特，言之有据，颇具学术水准，令人耳目一新。
This book lights up the historical, political and international law aspects of the Tibet conflict. Based on western scientific literature and on contemporary witnesses, it rebuts the largely dominant narrative that in 1950, the Chinese communists attacked and occupied an independent, peaceful country and, since then, tried to suppress Tibetan culture and even the Tibetan people itself.
On the contrary, it shows that “Tibetan independence” was a colonial project of the British Empire – a project later resumed, to some extent, by the USA within the context of the Cold War.
The author deals in detail with the first half of the 20th century, starting with the 13th Dalai Lama who rose later, with British support, to become a despot over an “independent Tibet“in which British agents pulled the strings. High officials and lamas loyal to China were killed then or had to flee, hole monasteries were razed to the ground. The Dalai Lama’s will for modernisation, though maintained by numerous western authors, confined itself to the creation of a "modern" army equipped and trained by the Britons. The death of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1933 led to embittered struggles for power, which the author tells in detail. The regent, who eventually came out on top, though being a lama, was corrupt and debauched. In the course of a renewed struggle for power with his equally corrupt successor, even a short civil war took place in Lhasa.

本书采用更为严肃认真的态度，为此本书谈及了大量关于政治和历史的问
题，而且首要的是深入探讨这些问题。本书首先要对西藏和中国内地之间数百
年的文化、宗教和政治关系寻根究源。一方面，中国认为西藏为其领土的一部分，
另一方面，“流亡藏人”要求西藏重新获得“独立”，本书尝试搞清楚二者各自
的依据是什么。其中我们还要搞清，“西藏”这一概念显而易见是出于政治方
面的原因一再被含糊使用，极易引起误解。本书详细讲述了十三世达赖喇嘛及
其之后的摄政者们的性格和政治活动。中国称1951 年将西藏从外来“帝国主
义”施加的影响中最终解放出来，本书考查了这一断言是否有根据，还是像西
方经常声称的那样纯属捏造。本书尝试着弄明白，西藏是否在其现代史的某一
时候可被看作是一个“独立国家”。本书研究了西藏回归中国中央政府有效管
辖的情况——中央政府称之为“和平解放”，还研究了年轻的中华人民共和国
那至关重要的头十年的历史。顺便提一下，本书首次向非学术界的德语读者介
绍了梅·戈尔斯坦的史学研究结果，他关于1913 至1955 年的西藏历史的巨著
是国际公认的这一主题的权威著作。【11】然后本书详尽讲述了20 世纪50 年代
后期至60 年代西藏的武装暴动及其参与者和幕后操纵者的情况。本书调查了
如今的西藏是否在中国享有真正的自治，或者只是名义上的自治。书中探究的
问题还有：对迁入的汉人“过多地影响”西藏的指责是否属实？是否真的存在
“文化扼杀”甚或肉体上的“民族灭绝”？在这一点上，“西藏流亡政府”以及
所谓的非政府组织对中国大加指责，还经常发誓称自己的说法属实。“中国人”
真的如再三读到的说法那样，想尽一切办法来毁灭藏语言文化吗？