The Struggle for Tibet
Wang Lixiong author Tsering Shakya author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Published:7th Dec '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet
Presents a debate on the occupation of Tibet and the movement for independence. This title offers a dialogue between a dissenting Chinese intellectual and Tibet's outstanding national historian breaks taboos on both sides of the decades-long conflict. It considers some of the bitter paradoxes of Tibet's history under Communist rule.China's decades-long repression of Tibetan independence continues on as its global economic power continues to grow. In response to the former and despite the latter, the independence movement persists, represented here through the voices of Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya. Born into the repressive one-party regime, both writers now seek for Tibetan cultural and political autonomy, and although each writer theorizes this goal differently, both are in agreement about what must now be done. The result is this milestone exchange.
While Wang suggests the complicity of a fear-stricken religion in perpetuating Chinese imperialist rule, Shakya interprets recent Tibetan history as a history of colonialism, against which the independence movement struggles for autonomous rule. These differing and sometimes opposing lines of thought finally climax in the present struggle for independence, ending upon a joint statement regarding Tibet's future: true autonomy is the only way.
A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the struggle for freedom in China and Tibet. -- Robert Thurman
ISBN: 9781844670437
Dimensions: 196mm x 132mm x 23mm
Weight: 313g
286 pages