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The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Benno Weiner [Weiner, Benno] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, 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. 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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Benno Weiner [Weiner, Benno]
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501749421
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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