Carole McGranahan

Arrested Histories

Tibet, the Cia, and Memories of a Forgotten War

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethnography that looks at the production of history and memory among the exile Tibetan community, focusing on narratives of the armed resistance against the Chinese from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347514
• ISBN-10: 0822347512
• Artikelnr.: 30365945

Autorenporträt

Carole McGranahan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is a co-editor of Imperial Formations.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Note on Transliteration, Names, and Photographs ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Empire and the State of Tibet 37
2. The Pains of Belonging 53
3. 1956: Year of the Fire Monkey 67
4. The Golden Throne 89
5. History and Memory as Social Practice 109
6. War in Exile 127
7. In a Clouded Mirror 143
8. Secrets, the CIA, and the Politics of Truth 163
9. A Nonviolent History of War 185
Conclusion: Truth, Fear, and Lies 201
Epilogue 219
Appendix. Who's Who 231
Notes 235
Bibliography 275
Index 303