{"product_id":"the-chinese-revolution-on-the-tibetan-frontier-9781501772306","title":"The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Benno Weiner\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland.\u003c\/b\u003e Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Weiner shows, however, early efforts to gradually and organically transform a vast multiethnic empire into a singular nation-state lost out to a revolutionary impatience, demanding more immediate paths to national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization, then to large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than joining voluntarily, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45031359545495,"sku":"9781501772306","price":3878.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501772306.webp?v=1768542861","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-chinese-revolution-on-the-tibetan-frontier-9781501772306","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}