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The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
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The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier / Benno Weiner.
ISBN
9781501749421
Publication
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (312 p.) : 8 b&w halftones, 4 maps
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In English.
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Summary
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. However, as Weiner shows, 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 large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than a voluntary union, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
A Note on Sources, Transliteration, and Nomenclature
Introduction: Amdo, Empire, and the United Front
1. Amdo at the Edge of Empire
2. If You Kill the County Head, How Will I Explain It to the Communist Party?
3. Becoming Masters of Their Own Home (under the Leadership of the Party)
4. Establishing a Foundation among the Masses
5. High Tide on the High Plateau
6. Tibetans Do the Housework, but Han Are the Masters
7. Reaching the Sky in a Single Step-The Amdo Rebellion
8. Empty Stomachs and Unforgivable Crimes
Conclusion: Amdo and the End of Empire?
Appendix A: Zeku's Chiefdoms (ca. 1953)
Appendix B: THL/Pinyin-Chinese-Wylie Conversion Table
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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