TY - BOOK ID - 136437198 TI - On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet : the Nyemo Incident of 1969 AU - Goldstein, Melvyn C. AU - Jiao, Ben. AU - Tanzen Lhundrup. PY - 2009 SN - 1282360698 9786612360695 0520942388 9780520942387 0520256824 9780520256828 9781282360693 9780520267909 0520267907 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - History KW - Tibet Autonomous Region (China) KW - China KW - 20th century tibetan history. KW - bagor district. KW - china. KW - chinese imperialism. KW - chinese occupation. KW - combat. KW - conflict. KW - cultural revolution in tibet. KW - cultural revolution. KW - deity. KW - gyenlo. KW - independence. KW - lhasa. KW - mob. KW - nationalist resistance. KW - nyamdre. KW - nyemo. KW - peoples liberation army. KW - political. KW - possession. KW - revolutionaries. KW - rival revolutionary groups. KW - tibet sovereignty debate. KW - tibet. KW - tibetan history. KW - tibetan nationalism. KW - violence. KW - warrior king gesar. KW - young nun. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136437198 AB - Among the conflicts to break out during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, the most famous took place in the summer of 1969 in Nyemo, a county to the south and west of Lhasa. In this incident, hundreds of villagers formed a mob led by a young nun who was said to be possessed by a deity associated with the famous warrior-king Gesar. In their rampage the mob attacked, mutilated, and killed county officials and local villagers as well as People's Liberation Army troops. This groundbreaking book, the first on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, revisits the Nyemo Incident, which has long been romanticized as the epitome of Tibetan nationalist resistance against China. Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, and Tanzen Lhundrup demonstrate that far from being a spontaneous battle for independence, this violent event was actually part of a struggle between rival revolutionary groups and was not ethnically based. On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet proffers a sober assessment of human malleability and challenges the tendency to view every sign of unrest in Tibet in ethno-nationalist terms. ER -