Memories of life in Lhasa under Chinese rule /

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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 pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Khétsun, Tubten, 1941- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Akester, Matthew (Traductor, writer of supplemental textual content.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Tibetan
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Khétsun, Tubten, > 1941-
Political prisoners > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > Biography.
Prisonniers politiques > Chine > Région autonome du Tibet > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Political prisoners.
Unterdrückung
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Biography.
Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) > Biographies.
China > Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tibet
China
Autobiography
Biography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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."--Jacket
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 318 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231512404
0231512406
1322438730
9781322438733

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