University of California Press, 6/24/2004 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 1.Date: 2000 9.0000 6.3000. 2000. University of California Press ISBN 0520240898 9780520240896 [US]

University of California Press, Date: 2004. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2004. University of California Press ISBN 0520240898 9780520240896 [US]

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Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Date: 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 371; VG/VG; black/red spine with white text; dust jacket shows mild wear to exterior; cloth clean; strong boards; text block clean; illustrated; tight binding. 1332026. FP New Rockville Stock. 2004. University of California Press ISBN 0520240898 US

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Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520240898. 395 pages. hardcover. keywords: Tibet History Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao's Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party's administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950s, Phünwang was the highest-ranking Tibetan official within the Communist Party in Tibet. Though he was fluent in Chinese, comfortable with Chinese culture, and devoted to socialism and the Communist Party, Phünwang's deep commitment to the welfare of Tibetans made him suspect to powerful Han colleagues. In 1958 he was secretly detained; three years later, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Beijing's equivalent of the Bastille for the next eighteen years. Informed by vivid firsthand accounts of the relations between the Dalai Lama, the Nationalist Chinese government, and the ...

University of California Press, 6/24/2004 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 1.Date: 2000 9.0000 6.3000. first edition book, includes the dust jacket 2000. University of California Press ISBN 0520240898 9780520240896 [US]