Download or read book The Tibetan Independence Movement written by Jane Ardley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious analysis of the Tibetan independence movement, this book is also the first to view the struggle from a comparative perspective, making an overt comparison with the Indian independence movement.
Download or read book The Impact of Transnational Forces on the Tibetan Independence Movement written by Boh Pan Ko and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Tibet Independence Movement written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ITM was founded by the Dalai Lama's brother Thubten Jigme Norbu in 1995 to promote Tibetan independence through non-violent means. The site lays out its case for independence and why Tibet is important to the world. Under Archive is a list of the activities of the group over the years, such as protest marches and walks, with information on these activities. The site also offers links, addresses for elected officials and ways to help the Tibetan cause.
Download or read book Political Transformations in the Tibetan Freedom Movement written by Karma Palzom-Pasha and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines how Tibetan exiles were able to redefine peoplehood as displaced persons in India and Nepal and as naturalized American citizens. After the 1959 Chinese colonial occupation of Tibet, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama created a Tibetan Government in Exile in India to rehabilitate the Tibetan people and work towards restoring Tibet's independence. In His Holiness's new 'Tibet' operating alongside Chinese-occupied Tibet, exiles were taught to embrace and practice democracy with the national goal of regaining Tibet's independence. Exiles believed that the Tibetan Government in Exile was the true government of Tibet and understood themselves to be refugees of Chinese invasion, despite the lack of recognition of their legal refugee status by all nation-states. However, an exiled government and a political base of followers backing an anti-colonial movement in South Asia were not enough. His Holiness looked to the United States to garner stronger support for Tibetan sovereignty. This study explores the transformations in the Tibetan Freedom Movement and particularly how Tibetan immigration to the U.S. since the beginning of exile was an integral part of how Tibetans shaped and reshaped the methods of the freedom struggle for independence. In looking at Tibetan immigrant experiences, I trace how the lack of the U.S. government's support for, and disavowal of Tibet's independence led to Tibetan immigrants using cultural and religious enrichment as a means to garner sympathy and support for Tibet. A central aspect of Tibetan activism in the United States became the reliance on American interests in Buddhism, the perpetuation of Shangri-la stereotypes, and the Dalai Lama's visits to propel the visibility of Tibet. This cultural recognition approach later became influential in how the Tibetan Government in Exile was able to permanently resettle 1,000 Tibetans to the U.S. and expand the scope of their influence after the passing of the Immigration Act of 1990, Tibetan Provision 134. While raising awareness about Tibet and living under the Tibetan Government in Exile, the various political transformations in the Tibetan Freedom Movement provided Tibetan exiles the possibility to live in a sovereign, territory-less Tibetan nation outside of their homeland.
Download or read book The Struggle for Tibet written by Wang Lixiong and published by Verso. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet.
Download or read book Forbidden Memory written by Tsering Woeser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet’s remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been banned, and no visual records of this history were known to have survived. In Forbidden Memory the leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser presents three hundred previously unseen photographs taken by her father, then an officer in the People’s Liberation Army, that show for the first time the frenzy and violence of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Found only after his death, Woeser’s annotations and reflections on the photographs, edited and introduced by the Tibet historian Robert Barnett, are based on scores of interviews she conducted privately in Tibet with survivors. Her book explores the motives and thinking of those who participated in the extraordinary rituals of public degradation and destruction that took place, carried out by Tibetans as much as Chinese on the former leaders of their culture. Heartbreaking and revelatory, Forbidden Memory offers a personal, literary discussion of the nature of memory, violence, and responsibility, while giving insight into the condition of a people whose violently truncated history they are still unable to discuss today. Access the glossary.
Download or read book Resistance Religion and Politics written by Jane Ardley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circle of Protest written by Ronald David Schwartz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the non-violent protests by monks and nuns in Tibet for independence from China. The movement began in 1987 partly as a result of official Chinese encouragement for cultural and religious revival during the 1980s. The ongoing struggle and response is a case study of the control methods and weaknesses in China as a whole. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Tibet Through Dissident Chinese Eyes Essays on Self determination written by James D. Seymour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there have been numerous publications that argue the merit of Chinese rule over Tibet, and many more that argue for Tibetan self-determination, the world has not heard many Chinese voices supporting the latter view. This book exposed the reader to just that perspective from no less famous writers and activists than Wei Jingsheng, Yan Jiaqi, Shen Tong, Wang Rouwang, and others. Though theirs is the view of a small minority of Chinese, history may still record the publication of these essays as a milestone in the history of this issue.
Download or read book The Tibetan Independence Movement written by Jane Ardley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibet has been occupied for over fifty years, yet no progress has been made in solving the Tibetan problem. The first serious analysis of the Tibetan independence movement, this book is also the first to view the struggle from a comparative perspective, making an overt comparison with the Indian independence movement. It rectifies the problem that the Tibetan independence movement is not taken seriously from a political perspective. The book is particularly concerned with the relationship between Buddhism and Tibetan politics and resistance, comparing this with the relationship between Hinduism and Gandhian political thought. It also expands on the limited literature concerning violent resistance in Tibet, examining guerilla warfare and the hunger strike undertaken by the Tibetan Youth Congress in 1998, rejecting the 'Shangri-la-ist' approach to Tibetan resistance.
Download or read book Religion as Political Activism written by Catherine Hennessy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Division of Heaven and Earth written by Shokdung and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translation of one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era, a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests that swept Tibet from March, 2008 - the 'Earth Rat' year according to the Tibetan calendar - as a re-awakening of Tibetan national consciousness and solidarity. The Division of Heaven and Earth was banned by the Chinese government on publication, and led to Shokdung being disappeared and imprisoned for nearly six months. This English translation is being made available for the first time since copies began to circulate underground in Tibet. The author, Tagyal -- who uses the pen name Shokdung, meaning morning conch-- one of Tibet's leading intellectuals, wrote his book in response to an unprecedented wave of bold demonstrations and expressions of Tibetan solidarity and national identity. In his foreword Matthew Akester, a Tibet specialist who translated this book into English, offers an account of the significance of these developments, which transformed the political landscape across the plateau and led to a sustained and violent crackdown by the Chinese authorities that continues to this day. Shokdung's book is regarded as the most daring and wide-ranging critique of China's policies in Tibet since the 10th Panchen
Download or read book Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang written by Ben Hillman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why certain areas have seen higher concentrations of ethnic-based violence than others. Essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the origins of unrest in contemporary Tibet and Xinjiang, this volume considers the role of propaganda and education as generators and sources of conflict. It links interethnic strife to economic growth and connects environmental degradation to increased instability. It captures the subtle difference between violence in urban Xinjiang and conflict in rural Tibet, with detailed portraits of everyday individuals caught among the pressures of politics, history, personal interest, and global movements with local resonance.
Download or read book The Historical Status of China s Tibet written by Jiawei Wang and published by 五洲传播出版社. This book was released on 1997 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palestinian Liberation Movement and the Tibetan Independence Movement written by Rachel Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier written by Benno Weiner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Across Many Mountains written by Yangzom Brauen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a Free Tibet demonstration in Moscow in 2001, a Swiss actress is captured on film being arrested. She catches people.s attention for her passion and her striking, Tibetan beauty. A German publisher suggests she tells the world her story. The result is this breathtaking book about Yangzom Brauen.s Tibetan heritage, and most particularly her extraordinary grandmother and mother, who fled Tibet in the early 1950s when the Chinese came to take their country away.
