Columbia International Affairs Online

CIAO DATE: 4/5/2008

Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

Tubten Khétsun

January 2008

Columbia University Press

Table of Contents

  1. The Story of My Family (4.3 MB)
  2. My Childhood (222 KB)
  3. The March 10th Uprising (1.4 MB)
  4. The Chinese Fan the Flames of War (126 KB)
  5. Imprisoned at the Tibet Military District Headquarters (221 KB)
  6. Imprisoned at the Norbu Lingka Barracks (94 KB)
  7. At the Nga-chen Power Station Construction Site (235 KB)
  8. In Téring Prison (265 KB)
  9. In Drapchi Prison (641 KB)
  10. The Trong-nying Prison Farm (268 KB)
  11. Back Home from Prison (196 KB)
  12. The Agitation by the Muslims of Woba-ling (94 KB)
  13. The Fall of the Panchen Lama (117 KB)
  14. The Misuse of Education (83 KB)
  15. The Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (139 KB)
  16. The Onset of the Cultural Revolution (1.9 MB)
  17. The June 7th Massacre (168 KB)
  18. A Disastrous New Year (739 KB)
  19. Old Tsampa in Old Méru (97 KB)
  20. The Sino-Soviet War Brings Increased Oppression (90 KB)
  21. The “One Smash and Three Antis” Campaign (113 KB)
  22. The “Great Massacre” (960 KB)
  23. PLA Soldiers Destroy the Fruits of the People’s Labor in the Marshes (172 KB)
  24. The Systematic Destruction of Ganden Monastery (115 KB)
  25. Sent to Kongpo for the Second Time (102 KB)
  26. The Xichao Dachang Timber Yard (96 KB)
  27. The Tölung Power Station Construction Camp (107 KB)
  28. The Lin Biao Affair (91 KB)
  29. The Defamation Campaign (96 KB)
  30. “Socialist Transformation” (118 KB)
  31. The Banak-shöl Production Cooperative (120 KB)
  32. The Farmer’s Life (125 KB)
  33. The Death of Mao Zedong and Subsequent Developments (139 KB)
  34. The Rewards of My Hard Work (80 KB)
  35. Working in the Potala Palace (437 KB)
  36. At the Tibet Academy of Social Science (95 KB)