Tibetan Revolutionary Goldstein Melvyn C.
This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Ph ntso Wangye (Ph nwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Ph nwang began his activism in school,…
Specifikacia Tibetan Revolutionary Goldstein Melvyn C.
This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Ph ntso Wangye (Ph nwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Ph nwang 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, Ph nwang 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, Ph nwang's deep