{"product_id":"the-chinese-revolution-on-the-benno-weiner-9781501749391","title":"The 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benno Weiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501749390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501749391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Benno Weiner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991374921983,"sku":"9781501749391","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_64c4ca0e-1d3b-4c46-92ea-a1f258d7cc2a.jpg?v=1683309922","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-chinese-revolution-on-the-benno-weiner-9781501749391","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}