The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China
Charlene Makley
Abstract
This wide-ranging, keenly observed study provides an account of the highly contested process through which the Tibetan Buddhist region of Labrang became incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Drawing from thirteen years of archival research and fieldwork in and around the famous Geluk sect Tibetan Buddhist monastery, this book situates the process of incorporation in the violent upheavals of Maoist socialist transformation that took place from 1950 through the 1970s, and in the transition to globalization via Deng Xiaoping's capitalist market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Synthesi ... More
Keywords: Labrang, China, Geluk sect, Deng Xiaoping, capitalist market reforms, socialist transformation, Tibet, Sino-Tibetan relations
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520250598 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520250598.001.0001 |
