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Melvyn C Goldstein
University of California Press

A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

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AuthorMelvyn C Goldstein
PublisherUniversity of California Press
PublishedJan 28 2022
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780520249929
Dimensions8.44 X 5.76 X 1.01 inches
Weight 1.2 pounds
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CategoriesBiography & Autobiography > Political
LanguageEnglish

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This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Ph�ntso Wangye (Ph�nwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Ph�nwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao's Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party's administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950s, Ph�nwang was the highest-ranking Tibetan official within the Communist Party in Tibet. Though he was fluent in Chinese, comfortable with Chinese culture, and devoted to socialism and the Communist Party, Ph�nwang's deep commitment to the welfare of Tibetans made him suspect to powerful Han colleagues. In 1958 he was secretly detained; three years later, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Beijing's equivalent of the Bastille for the next eighteen years.

Informed by vivid firsthand accounts of the relations between the Dalai Lama, the Nationalist Chinese government, and the People's Republic of China, this absorbing chronicle illuminates one of the world's most tragic and dangerous ethnic conflicts at the same time that it relates the fascinating details of a stormy life spent in the quest for a new Tibet.

Author Bio

Dr. Goldstein is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in Tibetan society. His topical interest include family and marriage (polyandry), cross-cultural and global aging, population studies, cultural ecology and economic development/change. He has conducted research in Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region of China) on a range of topics including nomadic pastoralism, the impact of economic reforms on rural Tibet, family planning and fertility, the revival of Buddhism, modern Tibetan history, and socio-economic change.

His has also conducted research in India (with Tibetan refugees), in northwest Nepal (with a Tibetan border community in Limi), in western Mongolia (with a nomadic pastoral community in Hovd province), in Kathmandu on family planning and intergenerational relations, and in eastern China on modernization and the elderly).

Dr. Goldstein’s current projects include: Editor of a large online Tibetan Oral History Archive with the Asia Division of the Library of Congress, an oral history of monks in Drepung Monastery in the traditional society, a longitudinal study of the impact of China’s reform policies on Tibetan nomads, and a study investigating modernization and changing patterns of the elderly and intergenerational relations in farming Tibet.

Source: Case Western Reserve University

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