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Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

Tubten Khétsun

February, 2008
Cloth, 344 pages, 16 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14286-1
$32.50 / £22.50


Translator's Introduction

Preface

1. The Story of My Family

2. My Childhood

3. The March 10th Uprising

4. The Chinese Fan the Flames of War

5. Imprisoned at the Tibet Military District Headquarters

6. Imprisoned at the Norbu Lingka Barracks

7. At the Nga-chen Power Station Construction Site

8. In Téring Prison

9. In Drapchi Prison

10. The Trong-nying Prison Farm

11. Back Home from Prison

12. The Agitation by the Muslims of Woba-ling

13. The Fall of the Panchen Lama

14. The Misuse of Education

15. The Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region

16. The Onset of the Cultural Revolution

17. The June 7th Massacre

18. A Disastrous New Year

19. Old Tsampa in Old Méru

20. The Sino-Soviet War Brings Increased Oppression

21. The "One Smash and Three Antis" Campaign

22. The "Great Massacre"

23. PLA Soldiers Destroy the Fruits of the People's Labor in the Marshes

24. The Systematic Destruction of Ganden Monastery

25. Sent to Kongpo for the Second Time

26. The Xichao Dachang Timber Yard

27. The Tölung Power Station Construction Camp

28. The Lin Biao Affair

29. The Defamation Campaign

30. "Socialist Transformation"

31. The Banak-shöl Production Cooperative

32. The Farmer's Life

33. The Death of Mao Zedong and Subsequent Developments

34. The Rewards of My Hard Work

35. Working in the Potala Palace

36. At the Tibet Academy of Social Science

Epilogue: Leaving Tibet

Index

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About the Author

Matthew Akester is an independent researcher and translator working in the field of Tibetan history. He has published several essays and translations on the history of Lhasa and is the author of a forthcoming history of central Tibet based on a nineteenth-century guidebook.

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