Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule - Hardcover

Khétsun, Tubten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231142862 ISBN 13: 9780231142861

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2007

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Book by Khtsun Tubten

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Demonstrates in full detail the human tragedy of Maoist rule in a land whose tradition it despised and tried to destroy. Kirkus Reviews A welcome and informative addition on this little-understood and highly polemicized subject. -- George Fitzherbert Times Literary Supplement This book provides an important piece of the puzzle for those seeking to understand the experience of ordinary Tibetans since 1959. -- Rick Carew Far Eastern Economic Review evocatively written and beautifully translated China Review International A powerful indictment of the physical and psychological exploitation of the Tibetan people and natural environment in the service of building a "new" China. -- Benno Ryan Weiner The Journal of Asian Studies

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Born in 1941, Tubten Khetsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khetsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and "class enemy." In this eloquent autobiography, Khetsun describes what life was like during those troubled years. His account is one of the most dispassionate, detailed, and readable firsthand descriptions yet published of Tibet under the Communist occupation. Khetsun talks of his prison experiences as well as the state of civil society following his release, and he offers keenly observed accounts of well-known events, such as the launch of the Cultural Revolution, as well as lesser-known aspects of everyday life in occupied Lhasa. Since Communist China continues to occupy Tibet, the facts of this era remain obscure, and few of those who lived through it have recorded their experiences at length. Khetsun's story will captivate any reader seeking a refreshingly human account of what occurred during the Maoists' shockingly brutal regime.

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0231142862
• ISBN 13: 9780231142861
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344