The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier / / Benno Weiner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Weiner, Benno,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 8 b&w halftones, 4 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; A Note on Sources, Transliteration, and Nomenclature --; Introduction: Amdo, Empire, and the United Front --; 1. Amdo at the Edge of Empire --; 2. If You Kill the County Head, How Will I Explain It to the Communist Party? --; 3. Becoming Masters of Their Own Home (under the Leadership of the Party) --; 4. Establishing a Foundation among the Masses --; 5. High Tide on the High Plateau --; 6. Tibetans Do the Housework, but Han Are the Masters --; 7. Reaching the Sky in a Single Step—The Amdo Rebellion --; 8. Empty Stomachs and Unforgivable Crimes --; Conclusion: Amdo and the End of Empire? --; Appendix A: Zeku’s Chiefdoms (ca. 1953) --; Appendix B: THL/Pinyin-Chinese-Wylie Conversion Table --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501749421; 9783110690460; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704730; 9783110704525
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501749421?locatt=mode:legacy
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Benno Weiner.

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. However, as Weiner shows, 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 large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than a voluntary union, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.