A Tibetan Revolutionary The Political Life and Times of Bapa PhA ntso Wangye 1st Edition by Melvyn Goldstein, William Siebenschuh, Dawei Sherap ISBN 978-0520240896 0520240898
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ISBN 10: 0520240898
ISBN 13: 978-0520240896
Author: Melvyn C. Goldstein, William R. Siebenschuh, Dawei Sherap
This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang 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, Phünwang 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, Phünwang’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.
Table of contents:
PART I Growing Up in Kham and China
1. Childhood in Batang
2. The Coup of Lobsang Thundrup
3. School Years
PART II The Tibetan Communist Party Era
4. Planning Revolution
5. Returning to Kham
6. To Lhasa
7. The Indian Communist Party
8. On the Verge of Revolt
9. Escape to Tibet
10. From Lhasa to Yunnan
PART III The People’s Republic of China
11. The Return to Batang
12. The Seventeen-Point Agreement
13. To Lhasa Again
14. With the PLA in Lhasa
15. A Year of Problems
16. An Interlude in Beijing
17. Beginning Reforms
PART IV Incarceration
18. Tension in Lhasa
19. Labeled a Local Nationalist
20. To Prison
21. Solitary Confinement
22. A Vow of Silence
PART V After Prison
23. Release from Prison
24. A New Struggle
25. Nationalities Policy
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