The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (2020)
Benno Weiner
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 volunatarily, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2020
প্রকাশক:
Cornell University Press
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
312
ISBN 10:
1501749390
ISBN 13:
9781501749391
বইয়ের সিরিজ:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
ফাইল:
EPUB, 4.62 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020