A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

by Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, William R. Siebenschuh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520249925
• ISBN13: 9780520249929
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"