{"product_id":"chinese-revolution-on-the-tibetan-frontier-9781501772306","title":"Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland.\u003c\/b\u003e Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Weiner shows, however, early efforts to gradually and organically transform a vast multiethnic empire into a singular nation-state lost out to a revolutionary impatience, demanding more immediate paths to national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization, then to large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than joining voluntarily, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenno Weiner is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eConflicting Memories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50498176188690,"sku":"9781501772306","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_74695142-03c3-4b71-a85c-44cd530b4b94.jpg?v=1730728188","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chinese-revolution-on-the-tibetan-frontier-9781501772306","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}