Struggle for Tibet

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Struggle for Tibet
By: Wang Lixiong & Tsering Shakya

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Author: Wang Lixiong & Tsering Shakya
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781844670437
Publication Date: 2009

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Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet.
This landmark dialogue between a dissenting Chinese intellectual and Tibet’s outstanding national historian breaks taboos on both sides of the conflict over Tibet.
In the first of the four exchanges that comprise this book, Wang Lixiong considers some of the bitter paradoxes of Tibet’s history under Communist rule, and their roots in the confrontation of an alien bureaucracy and fear-stricken religion. In reply, Tsering Shakya sets out his own view of Tibetan society and religion, and the PRC’s record in his country. Conceding the strength of some of Shakya’s arguments, Wang’s response focuses on the case of Woeser, a now-exiled Tibetan author. Wang critically examines China’s cultural imperialism, arguing that China has categorically suppressed Tibetan self-assertion, and aims to control expression of all kinds: any breakout invites punishment. The exchange concludes with Shakya’s examination of the difficulties faced today by Tibetan writers and thinkers, whose nationalist aspirations lead them to reject a traditional Tibetan religious world view, but oppose the state’s right to define “Tibetanness.”
Together, these pieces constitute a groundbreaking examination of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, and of Chinese cultural imperalism.

Wang Lixiong’s books include Sky Burial: The Fate of Tibet, and the political fantasy Yellow Peril, currently banned in China.

Tsering Shakya was born in Tibet and is a research fellow in Tibetan Studies at SOAS, London. He is author of The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, and Fire Under the Snow: The Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner.

Contents: The Struggle for Tibet

Map vii

Introduction Robert Barnett 1

Initial Exchange 35

1. Reflections on Tibet Wang Lixiong 37

2. Blood in the Snows Tsering Shakya 83

Analyses 113

3. Two Imperialisms in Tibet Wang Lixiong 115

4. The End of Tibetan Buddhism Wang Lixiong 147

March Incident 191

5. Tibetan Questions Tsering Shakya 193

6. Independence after the March Incident Wang Lixiong 223

7. Echoes of the Past: China's Response to Tibetan Unrest Tsering Shakya 253

Appendix: Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation by some Chinese Intellectuals 271

Acknowledgments 277

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