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Memories of life in Lhasa under Chinese rule
Dkaʼ sdug ʼog gi byuṅ ba brjod pa. English
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- Creator
- Tubten Khétsun ; translated and with an introduction by Matthew Akester
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- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xx, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780231512404, 9781322438733, 0231512406, 9780231142878, 9780231142861, 0231142862, 0231142870, 1322438730
- OCLC
- ocm86038505, ocn812927202, ocn818855856, on1013935285, ocn979573643
- Includes index.
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- 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 Téring 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 Méru -- The Sino-Soviet war brings increased oppression -- The "one smash and three anti's" campaign -- The "great massacre" -- PLA soldiers destroy the fruits of the people's labour in the marshes -- The systematic destruction of Ganden monastery -- Sent to Kongpo as a construction worker for the second time -- The "Xichao Dachang" timber yard -- The Tölung power station construction camp -- The Lin Biao affair -- The defamation campaign -- "Socialist transformation" -- The Banak-shöl 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