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In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet’s Amdo region Throughout the 1950s. From the viewpoint of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet’s eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his circle of relatives made to and from Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted that same journey as they fled from advancing Chinese troops. Naktsang’s father joined and was once killed in the little-known 1958 Amdo insurrection against the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the armed branch of the Chinese Communist Party. Throughout the next year, the writer and his brother were imprisoned in a camp where, after the onset of famine, very few children survived.
The real significance of this episodic narrative is the way it shows, through the eyes of a kid, the suppressed histories of China’s invasion of Tibet. The writer’s matter-of-fact accounts cast the atrocities that he relays in stark relief. Remarkably, Naktsang lived to tell his tale. His book was once published in 2007 in China, where it was once a bestseller before the Chinese government banned it in 2010. It’s the most reprinted up to date Tibetan literary work. This translation makes a captivating if painful period of up to date Tibetan history accessible in English.
The real significance of this episodic narrative is the way it shows, through the eyes of a kid, the suppressed histories of China’s invasion of Tibet. The writer’s matter-of-fact accounts cast the atrocities that he relays in stark relief. Remarkably, Naktsang lived to tell his tale. His book was once published in 2007 in China, where it was once a bestseller before the Chinese government banned it in 2010. It’s the most reprinted up to date Tibetan literary work. This translation makes a captivating if painful period of up to date Tibetan history accessible in English.
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