On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet : the Nyemo Incident of 1969 / Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, Tanzen Lhundrup.

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Goldstein, Melvyn C

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 236 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520942387
0520942388
1282360698
9781282360693

Report number: 2008025403Other title:

Nyemo Incident of 1969

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the Cultural Revolution in TibetDDC classification:

951/.5056 22

LOC classification:

DS786

Other classification:

15.79
6,25
LB 51615
MH 50090
D652

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Contents:

The Cultural Revolution in Tibet -- Gyenlo and Nyamdre in Nyemo County -- Gyenlo on the attack -- Destroying the demons and ghosts -- The attacks on Bagor District and Nyemo County -- The capture of the nun.

Summary: Among the conflicts to break out during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, the most famous took place in the summer of 1969 in Nyemo, a county to the south and west of Lhasa. In this incident, hundreds of villagers formed a mob led by a young nun who was said to be possessed by a deity associated with the famous warrior-king Gesar. In their rampage the mob attacked, mutilated, and killed county officials and local villagers as well as People's Liberation Army troops. This groundbreaking book, the first on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, revisits the Nyemo Incident, which has long been romanti.

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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228) and index.

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Among the conflicts to break out during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, the most famous took place in the summer of 1969 in Nyemo, a county to the south and west of Lhasa. In this incident, hundreds of villagers formed a mob led by a young nun who was said to be possessed by a deity associated with the famous warrior-king Gesar. In their rampage the mob attacked, mutilated, and killed county officials and local villagers as well as People's Liberation Army troops. This groundbreaking book, the first on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, revisits the Nyemo Incident, which has long been romanti.

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