Book Name : 1959 拉薩 !
Author : 李江琳
What is it about : The author (a Chinese) pieced together numerous interviews with the Tibetan exodus and "official" historical references from the Communists Party as well as the Author's own description about the events before and leading up to the Dalai Lama's exile in India. The Author tried to clarify countless confusions and happenings about the interplays between the main characters : Mao, Dalai, Zhou Enlai and Nehru et al. The book also shed interesting lights on the long history between China and Tibet and about the important significance of the many Tibetan temples.
Some thoughts after having read the book : I tried to read this book with only History in mind and the book allowed me to fully immerse in the events as if Live ! I experienced through the reading of this book, the inevitability of conflicts and human instincts played out on another world stage. What are these instincts : might is right; winner takes all; ideology trumps. Just how many times have you seen similar events played out in our species' brief history ?
Would I recommend this book to you : A major YES ! You will not be unmoved by the feeling and experience of the sadness and desperation of War. You will gain an understanding of the steamrolling Communists of their ruthlessness to achieve their ideological objectives. You will be touched by the then young Dalai Lama's dilemma of entering and maneuvering around a tight historical cul-de-sac.
Author : 李江琳
What is it about : The author (a Chinese) pieced together numerous interviews with the Tibetan exodus and "official" historical references from the Communists Party as well as the Author's own description about the events before and leading up to the Dalai Lama's exile in India. The Author tried to clarify countless confusions and happenings about the interplays between the main characters : Mao, Dalai, Zhou Enlai and Nehru et al. The book also shed interesting lights on the long history between China and Tibet and about the important significance of the many Tibetan temples.
Some thoughts after having read the book : I tried to read this book with only History in mind and the book allowed me to fully immerse in the events as if Live ! I experienced through the reading of this book, the inevitability of conflicts and human instincts played out on another world stage. What are these instincts : might is right; winner takes all; ideology trumps. Just how many times have you seen similar events played out in our species' brief history ?
Would I recommend this book to you : A major YES ! You will not be unmoved by the feeling and experience of the sadness and desperation of War. You will gain an understanding of the steamrolling Communists of their ruthlessness to achieve their ideological objectives. You will be touched by the then young Dalai Lama's dilemma of entering and maneuvering around a tight historical cul-de-sac.
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