ISBN:
9780231142861
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9780231512404 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
341 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780231512404
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
951.5
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun 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. Khétsun 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, Khétsun describes what life was like during those troubled years. His account is one of the most dispassionate, detailed, and readable firsthand descriptions ye...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
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