In the two decades between her first and most-recent trips to Tibet, author Chen Fei-Fei studied extensively the history, heritage and people of this once formidable Himalayan kingdom. This was also a period during which both Tibetans and visitors fell under increasingly onerous restrictions and surveillance imposed by China’s state security apparatus, leaving Tibetans few options outside of self-immolation protests to express their discontent over Chinese government repression and draw international media attention. Nation on Ice crystallizes Chen’s many personal experiences in Tibet, her related studies, and her thoughts on this nation’s past, present and future. Rejecting the modern-day Chinese framing of Tibet as the regional home of one of China’s many “minority” populations, Chen plumbs the historical record and draws on her own lived experiences throughout the Tibetan world to present Tibet in a significantly more authentic and objective light and to document the true fate of Tibet’s culture and people under PRC dominion.