Memories of life in Lhasa under Chinese rule
By: Tubten Khétsun ; translated by Matthew Akester.
Contributors: Akester, Matthew.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231142861
Subjects: Khétsun, Tubten, -- 1941-; Political prisoners -- China -- Tibet -- Biography.; Tibet (China) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: Dkaʾ sdug ʾog gi byuṅ ba brjod pa.
Table of contents: The story of my family; My childhood; The March 10th uprising; The Chinese fan the flames of war; Imprisoned at the Tibet Military District headquarters; Imprisoned at the Norbu Lingka barracks; A prisoner at the Nga-chen power station construction site; In Téring prison; In Trapchi prison; The Trong-nying prison farm; Back home after my release from prison; The agitation by the Muslims of Woba-ling; The fall of the Panchen Lama; The misuse of education; Sent to Powo yiwong as a construction labourer after the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region; The onset of the "Cultural Revolution"; The 7th June massacre; A disastrous new year; Old Tsampa in old Méru; The Sino-Soviet war brings increased oppression; The "one smash and three anti's" campaign; The "great massacre"; PLA soldiers destroy the fruits of the people's labour in the marshes; The systematic destruction of Ganden monastery; Sent to Kongpo as a construction worker for the second time; The "Xichao Dachang" timber yard; The Tölung power station construction camp; The Lin Biao affair; The defamation campaign; "Socialist transformation"; The Banak-shöl production cooperative; The farmer's life; The death of Mao Zedong and subsequent developments; The rewards of my hard work; Working in the Potala Palace; At the Tibet Academy of Social Science; Epilogue: leaving Tibet.