The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier

Benno Weiner

ISBN 10: 1501749390 / ISBN 13: 9781501749391

Published by Cornell University Press Jun 2020, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
• Publisher: Cornell University Press Jun 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501749390
• ISBN 13: 9781501749391
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 239W x 164H x 30D millimeters 239 millimeters width by 164 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 644 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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