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A Tibetan Revolutionary

The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Dawei Sherap,William R. Siebenschuh

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A Tibetan Revolutionary

The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Dawei Sherap,William R. Siebenschuh

These extraordinary memoirs dictated by a key figure in the history of 20th century Sino-Tibetan relations are essential reading for all interested in understanding this important subject. The founder of the Tibetan Communist Party recalls vividly his personal role in the epic struggle of the Tibetan people over tradition and modernity, and the hopes, betrayals and tragedies that have marked it. The idealism, honesty and courage that have defined his life are in full evidence in this gripping personal narrative."—John L. Holden, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations "This is one of the great untold stories of modern Tibet. Phüntso Wangye is a man who has never stopped fighting for his people, and the story of his life is both heartbreaking and inspiring, and essential for understanding what has happened in Tibet since the 1930s. Tibetan history has never before been as exciting to read as it is here."—John Ackerly, President, International Campaign for Tibet

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The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Dawei Sherap,William R. Siebenschuh

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The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

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A Tibetan Revolutionary

The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Dawei Sherap,William R Siebenschuh

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The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Dawei Sherap,William R Siebenschuh

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. 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.

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