A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuentso Wangye | 
 enlarge | Authors: Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, William R. Siebenschuh
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 395
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0520240898
Dewey Decimal Number: 951.505092
EAN: 9780520240896
ASIN: 0520240898
Publication Date: June 24, 2004
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This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phuentso Wangye (Phuenwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phuenwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao's Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party's administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950s, Phuenwang was the highest-ranking Tibetan official within the Communist Party in Tibet. Though he was fluent in Chinese, comfortable with Chinese culture, and devoted to socialism and the Communist Party, Phuenwang's deep commitment to the welfare of Tibetans made him suspect to powerful Han colleagues. In 1958 he was secretly detained; three years later, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Beijing's equivalent of the Bastille for the next eighteen years.
Informed by vivid firsthand accounts of the relations between the Dalai Lama, the Nationalist Chinese government, and the People's Republic of China, this absorbing chronicle illuminates one of the world's most tragic and dangerous ethnic conflicts at the same time that it relates the fascinating details of a stormy life spent in the quest for a new Tibet.
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Phuentso Wangye: a remarkable man. August 13, 2008
One's respect for Phuentso Wangye grows as one reads this book. This remarkable man went from simple origins to grounding the Tibetan Communist Party, held important posts in the Chinese Communist Party, finally becoming a leading Marxist dialectician. He was closely involved with all the important figures in the Tibet-China question over 5 decades including Mao, Zhou Enlai and the Dalai and Panchen Lamas. He was a fearless proponent of the Tibetan and Khampa identity throughout, while remaining an internationalist, suffering for his integrity with 18 years in solitary confinement. He finally has gained the respect of parties on all sides of the question, while being very clear about his alignment with the CCP.
Tibet not Shangrila March 10, 2006
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This is a book of unique interest to anyone more concerned with Tibet than with Shangri-la. Phuntso Wangye reveals himself to Melvyn Goldstein as a man of unique vision, courage and energy. The picture he creates of Eastern Tibet in the forties and fifties is fascinating in its detail for anyone seriously interested in how things came to their present pass in Tibet today. His qualities of creativity and endurance and his ability to hold and explicate complexity are dazzling. He was there. He acted. He learned, thought, studied and survived.
It is also one of a number of records of those who matured through the experience of solitary confinement. His personal courage and clarity make him a natural brother to Nelson Mandela and others who have found their own sanity in the most extreme of conditions.
I have read the book twice now and appreciated its richness more the second time around. Read it and you'll see.
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