Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

by Tubten Khétsun

Book Overview

Born in 1941, Tubten Kh tsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Kh tsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and "class enemy." In this eloquent autobiography, Kh tsun describes what life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231142862
• ISBN13: 9780231142861
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher