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Melvyn C Goldstein
Routledge

The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering

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AuthorMelvyn C Goldstein
PublisherRoutledge
PublishedFeb 28 1997
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780765605092
Dimensions8.99 X 6.05 X 0.72 inches
Weight 0.77 pounds
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CategoriesBiography & Autobiography > Political
LanguageEnglish

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This captivating autobiography by a Tibetan educator and former political prisoner is full of twists and turns. Born in 1929 in a Tibetan village, Tsering developed a strong dislike of his country's theocratic ruling elite. As a 13-year-old member of the Dalai Lama's personal dance troupe, he was frequently whipped or beaten by teachers for minor infractions. A heterosexual, he escaped by becoming a drombo, or homosexual passive partner and sex-toy, for a well-connected monk. After studying at the University of Washington, he returned to Chinese-occupied Tibet in 1964, convinced that Tibet could become a modernized society based on socialist, egalitarian principles only through cooperation with the Chinese. Denounced as a 'counterrevolutionary' during Mao's Cultural Revolution, he was arrested in 1967 and spent six years in prison or doing forced labor in China. Officially exonerated in 1978, Tsering became a professor of English at Tibet University in Lhasa. He now raises funds to build schools in Tibet's villages, emphasizing Tibetan language and culture.

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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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