Tibetan Revolutionary The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phï¿½ntso Wangye

Name: Tibetan Revolutionary The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phï¿½ntso Wangye
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ISBN: 9780520249929

ISBN-10: 0520249925

ISBN-13: 9780520249929

Edition: 2004

Authors: Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, William R. Siebenschuh

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This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phuntso Wangye (Phunwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phunwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao's Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party's administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950s, Phunwang was the…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Romanization and Abbreviations


List of Key Persons


Introduction


A Brief Historical Context



Growing Up In Kham And China



Childhood in Batang



The Coup of Lobsang Thundrup



School Years



The Tibetan Communist Party Era



Planning Revolution



Returning to Kham



To Lhasa



The Indian Communist Party



On the Verge of Revolt



Escape to Tibet



From Lhasa to Yunnan



The People's Republic Of China



The Return to Batang



The Seventeen-Point Agreement



To Lhasa Again



With the PLA in Lhasa



A Year of Problems



An Interlude in Beijing



Beginning Reforms



Incarceration



Tension in Lhasa



Labeled a Local Nationalist



To Prison



Solitary Confinement



A Vow of Silence



After Prison



Release from Prison



A New Struggle



Nationalities Policy


Epilogue


A Comment




Original Charter of the Eastern Tibet People's Autonomous Alliance



Summary of Talks with Tibetan Exile Delegations



Some Opinions on Amending the Constitution with Regard to Nationalities


Glossary of Correct Tibetan Spellings


Index