Echoes from Forgotten Mountains Tibet in War and Peace
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India Viking | ||||||||||||||||
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2023 | ||||||||||||||||
Pagine - Pages | 962 | ||||||||||||||||
Titolo originale | Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: Tibet in War and Peace | ||||||||||||||||
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Lingua - language - langue | Eng | ||||||||||||||||
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Jamyang Norbu ha preso le storie dei tibetani "dimenticati" - combattenti della resistenza, agenti segreti, soldati, contadini, commercianti, persino mendicanti di strada - e ha abilmente trasformato la loro miriade di racconti in un'unica gloriosa "storia della memoria" della lotta tibetana. Usa i ricordi della propria infanzia per facilitare il lettore in una comprensione coinvolgente della complessità della storia moderna del Tibet: l'invasione cinese, le rivolte a Kham e Amdo, la formazione della Forza di resistenza dei quattro fiumi e sei montagne (Chushi Gangdruk (tib.: ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་,), la battaglia di Lhasa del marzo '59 Durante la rivolta, la CIA appoggiò le operazioni aeree, la rivolta contadina di Nyemo del 68/69 e la Mustang Guerilla Force nel Nepal settentrionale, dove in seguito Norbu prestò servizio.
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| Jamyang Norbu has taken the stories of 'forgotten' Tibetans--resistance fighters, secret agents, soldiers, peasants, merchants, even street beggars--and skillfully worked their myriad accounts into a single glorious 'memory history' of the Tibetan struggle. He uses recollections from his own childhood to ease the reader into an immersive understanding of the complexity of Tibet's modern history: the Chinese invasion, the uprisings in Kham and Amdo, the formation of the Four Rivers Six Ranges Resistance Force, the March '59 Lhasa Uprising, the CIA supported Air Operations, the Nyemo peasant Uprising of 68/69 and the Mustang Guerilla Force in northern Nepal, where Norbu later served. | |||||||||||||
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Jamyang Norbu was educated at St. Joseph's School in Darjeeling. He has worked for the Tibetan government-in-exile in various posts since 1967, and was briefly a member of the Tibetan Resistance Force in Mustang. Norbu was one of the convenors of the first Tibetan Youth Congress (1970), and member of the Central Executive Committee for ten years. He was also the creator of Tibetans-in-exile taxation scheme (the green book system), which has been the main source of funding for the exile government since 1972. Norbu has regularly commented on Tibetan and Chinese affairs. A collection of his political essays were published as a book, Illusion and Reality (1989), by the TYC. Chinese authorities in Tibet have, on the other hand, derided his writings as being inconsequential as "the wings of a fly beating against a boulder". | |||||||||||||||||
Consulta anche: The Forgotten Anniversary - Remembering the Great Khampa Uprising of 1956 | |||||||||||||||||
Consulta anche: Intervista a cura di Beniamino Natale | |||||||||||||||||
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