Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution

by Tsering Woeser

When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet's remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been banned, and no visual records of this history were known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612349692
• ISBN13: 9781612349695
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.2" x 10.2"