The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering - , William R Siebenschuh
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This autobiography provides a captivating account of the life of Tashi Tsering, a Tibetan educator and former political prisoner. Born in in a Tibetan village, Tsering's experiences shaped his strong aversion to the theocratic ruling elite of his country. As a young member of the Dalai Lama's personal dance troupe, he endured physical punishment from teachers, leading him to escape by assuming the role of a drombo, a passive partner and sex-toy for a well-connected monk.
Following his studies at the University of Washington, Tsering returned to Chinese-occupied Tibet in with the belief that Tibet could progress as a modernized society through collabora
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I have a lot of respect for Tashi Tsering and what he has been through, but I found this book to be frustrating and limited severely by the time in which it was written.
The pre-colonization, exile, and Cultural Revolution portions did a very honest and interesting examination of both the author and those situations, but the Reform Era chapters suffer from both the overly optimistic environment of the 80s in the PRC and also from the global narrative framework of that era. Both are understandable but potentially dangerous if taken without understanding their historical context.
After Reform and Opening, there was a genuine hope that minority policy would shift significantly and permanently towards more meaningful autonomy, mirroring the general hopes in the PRC for positive change. These hopes were shown to have significant limitations in , but were still existent in the
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