Tsering Woeser: Forbidden Memory | Buch

Cover: 9781612349695 | Forbidden Memory | Tibet During the Cultural Revolution | Woeser

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Beschreibung

Forbidden Memory is a set of three hundred previously unseen photographs that show for the first time the violence and destruction of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, with extensive interviews and detailed cultural and historical analysis

Über den Autor

Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan poet and essayist. She is the most prominent commentator on the Tibet issue still living within China and has written twenty-one books in Chinese, with eighteen translations of her work published in nine other languages, including Voices from Tibet,Tibet on Fire, and two others in English. Woeser has received the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands and the U.S. Department of State’s International Women of Courage Award. She lives under close surveillance in Beijing. Tsering Dorje (1937–91) was a Tibetan officer in the People’s Liberation Army who served in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution. Robert Barnett is a leading scholar of modern Tibetan history and politics who founded and directed the Modern Tibetan Studies program at Columbia from 2000 until 2017. His books include Lhasa: Streets with Memories, and he is currently a professorial research associate at SOAS, University of London. Susan T. Chen is a longtime collaborator with Tsering Woeser and translator of her work. She received her PhD in contemporary Tibetan culture from Emory University and is visiting assistant professor of history at Wingate University in North Carolina.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Wang Lixiong

A Note on the Photographs
Tsering Woeser

Defining Revolution: A Note on the Word Shajie
Tsering Woeser

Introduction
Robert Barnett

A Note on the English Edition
Robert Barnett and Susan T. Chen

I. Smash the Old Tibet! The Cultural Revolution Arrives

On the Eve of Revolution
The Sacking of the Jokhang
The Red Guards in Lhasa Take Action

How Was the Jokhang Sacked?

The Red Guards from Mainland China
The Aftermath of the Sacking of the Jokhang
Who Is to Be Blamed?
After the Sacking

Denouncing the Ox-Demon-Snake-Spirits
Ox-Demon-Snake-Spirits in Tibet

The Diversification of Activists
Rule by Intimidation: Life Under the Neighborhood Committees

Changing Names
The Barkor Becomes “Establish-the-New Avenue”

The Norbulingka Is Changed to the “People’s Park”
Renaming Chagpori as “Victory Peak”

II. Civil War among the Rebels: “Whom to Trust—The Faction Decides!”

The Two Main Rebel Factions: Key Facts
Factional Ideologies: Fighting over the Same Idea

A Rivalry of Blood and Fire
The Dust Settles

III. The Dragon Takes Charge: The People’s Liberation Army in Tibet

Military Rule
The People’s Liberation Army in Tibet

Conflicts within the Military
The Passionate Dedication of the Military Propaganda Teams

Everyone a Soldier: The Tibetan Militia

IV. Mao’s New Tibet: Revolutionary Violence and Destruction

The Revolutionary Committees
The People’s Communes
Installing a New God

V. Coda: The Wheel Turns

The Karmic Debt

Postscript: Forty-Six Years Later

Return to Lhasa
Forty-Six Years Later

Appendix: Jampa Rinchen’s Testimony
Glossary of Chinese and English Terms
Glossary of Tibetan Terms
Notes
References

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781612349695
ISBN-10:	1612349692
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Woeser, Tsering
Redaktion:	Barnett, Robert
Übersetzung:	Chen, Susan T
Hersteller:	Potomac Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	261 x 184 x 43 mm
Von/Mit:	Tsering Woeser
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.04.2020
Gewicht:	1,261 kg

Artikel-ID: 121110583