Witness a Century of Tibet: Interviews with Witnesses to Tibetan History: Interviews with Witnesses to Tibetan History

Author: Zhang Xiaoming
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Publish Date: 2003-10-02
Features: At the turn of the two centuries, Tibet was moving away from the past and towards the future at a pace that was hard to imagine. In this book, history is not a concept or a conclusion; it is a process, a detail. It is from these ordinary yet detailed processes and details that we read the changes in Tibet over a century and the profound sense of history. Tibetan society has experienced four major turning points: from isolation to openness, from theocracy to secular governance, from feudal rule to ethnic autonomy, and from a traditional society to modernization. However, how was this change achieved? Each author in this book has experienced the transition between two eras and social transformations in Tibet. Some have passed away, while others are now elderly in their 80s and 90s. From their own perspectives, they present a truthful and objective account of many significant historical events in Tibetan society and narrate the detailed experiences they witnessed firsthand.