Memories of Life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule

Name: Memories of Life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule
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ISBN: 9780231142861

ISBN-10: 0231142862

ISBN-13: 9780231142861

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tubten Khï¿½tsun, Matthew Akester, Tubten Khétsun

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Born in 1941, Tubten Khtsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner in the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khtsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after serving a four-year sentence, he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and "class enemy." In this eloquent autobiography, Khtsun describes what it was like to live under Maoist rule. His account is one of the most dispassionate, detailed, and readable firsthand descriptions yet published of daily life in Tibet under the Communist occupation. Khtsun talks of his prison experiences as well as the state of…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Matthew Akester is an independent researcher and translator working in the field of Tibetan history. He has published several essays and translations on the history of Lhasa and is the author of a forthcoming history of central Tibet based on a nineteenth-century guidebook.



Translator's Introduction


Preface



The Story of My Family



My Childhood



The March 10th Uprising



The Chinese Fan the Flames of War



Imprisoned at the Tibet Military District Headquarters



Imprisoned at the Norbu Lingka Barracks



At the Nga-chen Power Station Construction Site



In Tering Prison



In Drapchi Prison



The Trong-nying Prison Farm



Back Home from Prison



The Agitation by the Muslims of Woba-ling



The Fall of the Panchen Lama



The Misuse of Education



The Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region



The Onset of the Cultural Revolution



The June 7th Massacre



A Disastrous New Year



Old Tsampa in Old Meru



The Sino-Soviet War Brings Increased Oppression



The "One Smash and Three Antis" Campaign



The "Great Massacre"



PLA Soldiers Destroy the Fruits of the People's Labor in the Marshes



The Systematic Destruction of Ganden Monastery



Sent to Kongpo for the Second Time



The Xichao Dachang Timber Yard



The Tolung Power Station Construction Camp



The Lin Biao Affair



The Defamation Campaign



"Socialist Transformation"



The Banak-shol Production Cooperative



The Farmer's Life



The Death of Mao Zedong and Subsequent Developments



The Rewards of My Hard Work



Working in the Potala Palace



At the Tibet Academy of Social Science


Epilogue: Leaving Tibet


Index