The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier

Benno Weiner

ISBN 10: 1501749390 / ISBN 13: 9781501749391

Edité par Cornell University Press Jun 2020, 2020

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• Titre: The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
• Éditeur: Cornell University Press Jun 2020
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1501749390
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781501749391
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 239 L x 164 H x 30 P (en millimètres) 239 millimètres de largeur par 164 millimètres de hauteur par 30 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 644 grammes

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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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Benno Weiner is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and coeditor of Conflicting Memories.