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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.
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.
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