Tibet in Agony Li Jianglin
Tibet in Agony Li Jianglin The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet,…
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Tibet in Agony Li Jianglin
The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet, remains little understood today. The second incident--the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989--is well known.
Sifting facts from the distortions of propaganda and partisan politics, Jianglin Li reconstructs a chronology of events that lays to rest lingering questions about what happened in those fate-filled days and why. Yet in wages of destruction, bloodshed, and trampling of human rights, the tragic toll of March 1959 surpassed Tiananmen.Tibet in Agony provides the first clear historical account of the Chinese crackdown in Lhasa. Her story begins with throngs of Tibetan demonstrators who--fearful that Chinese authorities were planning to abduct the Dalai Lama, their beloved leader--formed a