The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier Hardback
by Benno Weiner
Part of the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University series
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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 voluntarily, 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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- Pages:312 pages, 8 Halftones, black and white; 4 Maps
- Publisher:Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2020
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- ISBN:9781501749391
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 8 Halftones, black and white; 4 Maps
- Publisher:Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2020
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- ISBN:9781501749391