{"product_id":"forbidden-memory-tibet-during-the-cultural-revolution-hardcover","title":"Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTsering Woeser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Barnett\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSusan T. Chen\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccess the glossary of Tibetan terms. \u003cbr\u003eAccess the glossary of Chinese and English terms. \u003cbr\u003eAccess the Index. 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 to have survived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eForbidden Memory\u003c\/i\u003e the leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser presents three hundred previously unseen photographs taken by her father, then an officer in the People's Liberation Army, that show for the first time the frenzy and violence of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Found only after his death, Woeser's annotations and reflections on the photographs, edited and introduced by the Tibet historian Robert Barnett, are based on scores of interviews she conducted privately in Tibet with survivors. Her book explores the motives and thinking of those who participated in the extraordinary rituals of public degradation and destruction that took place, carried out by Tibetans as much as Chinese on the former leaders of their culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Heartbreaking and revelatory, \u003ci\u003eForbidden Memory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a personal, literary discussion of the nature of memory, violence, and responsibility, while giving insight into the condition of a people whose violently truncated history they are still unable to discuss today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTsering Woeser\u003c\/b\u003e is a Tibetan poet and essayist. She is the most prominent commentator on the Tibet issue still living within China and has written twenty-one books in Chinese, with eighteen translations of her work published in nine other languages, including \u003ci\u003eVoices from Tibet, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTibet on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, and two others in English. Woeser has received the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands and the U.S. Department of State's International Women of Courage Award. She lives under close surveillance in Beijing. \u003cb\u003eTsering Dorje \u003c\/b\u003e(1937-91) was a Tibetan officer in the People's Liberation Army who served in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution. \u003cb\u003eRobert Barnett\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading scholar of modern Tibetan history and politics who founded and directed the Modern Tibetan Studies program at Columbia from 2000 until 2017. His books include \u003ci\u003eLhasa: Streets with Memories\u003c\/i\u003e, and he is currently a professorial research associate at SOAS, University of London. \u003cb\u003eSusan T. Chen\u003c\/b\u003e is a longtime collaborator with Tsering Woeser and translator of her work. She received her PhD in contemporary Tibetan culture from Emory University and is visiting assistant professor of history at Wingate University in North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 10.2 x 7.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760027042080,"sku":"9781612349695","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ed9dd2bfbf6e61d69e902e09dbd170f7.webp?v=1780169344","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/forbidden-memory-tibet-during-the-cultural-revolution-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}