Tibet, 1950-1967
Author : Nai-min Ling
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Page : 886 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Tibet (China)
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Author : Nai-min Ling
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Page : 886 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Tibet (China)
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Author : You lian yan jiu suo (Kowloon, China).
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
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Author : UNION RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD.
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Page : 869 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1968
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Page : 849 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Union research institute
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1968
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Tibet (China)
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Author : Yu lien Yen chiu so
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Tsering Woeser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1640122907
When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet's remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been banned, and no visual records of this history were known to have survived. In Forbidden Memory the leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser presents three hundred previously unseen photographs taken by her father, then an officer in the People's Liberation Army, that show for the first time the frenzy and violence of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Found only after his death, Woeser's annotations and reflections on the photographs, edited and introduced by the Tibet historian Robert Barnett, are based on scores of interviews she conducted privately in Tibet with survivors. Her book explores the motives and thinking of those who participated in the extraordinary rituals of public degradation and destruction that took place, carried out by Tibetans as much as Chinese on the former leaders of their culture. Heartbreaking and revelatory, Forbidden Memory offers a personal, literary discussion of the nature of memory, violence, and responsibility, while giving insight into the condition of a people whose violently truncated history they are still unable to discuss today. Access the glossary.
Author : Benno Weiner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501749412
In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community. As Weiner shows, however, early efforts to gradually and organically transform a vast multiethnic empire into a singular nation-state lost out to a revolutionary impatience, demanding more immediate paths to national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization, then to large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than joining voluntarily, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.
Author : Palden Gyatso
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802190006
“With this memoir by a ‘simple monk’ who spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for resisting the Chinese, a rare Tibetan voice is heard.” —The New York Times Book Review Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at eighteen—just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1967, the Chinese destroyed monasteries across Tibet and forced thousands of monks into labor camps and prisons. Gyatso spent the next twenty-five years of his life enduring interrogation and torture simply for the strength of his beliefs. Palden Gyatso’s story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the strength of Tibet’s proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide. “To readers of this memoir, however untraveled, Tibet will never again seem remote or unfamiliar. . . . Gyatso reminds us that the language of suffering is universal.” —Library Journal “Has the ring of undeniable truth. . . . Palden Gyatso’s clear-sighted eloquence (in Tsering Shakya’s fluent translation) makes his tale even more engrossing.” —San Francisco Chronicle