Born in 1941 Tubten Khetsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples uprising of March 10 1959 Khetsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama s summer palace and after four years in prisons and labor camps he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and class enemy In this eloquent autobiography Khetsun describes what life was like during those troubled years His account is one of the most dispassionate detailed and readable firsthand descriptions yet published of Tibet under the Communist occupation Born in 1941 Tubten Khetsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples uprising of March 10 1959 Khetsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama s summer palace and after four years in prisons and labor camps he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and class enemy In this eloquent autobiography Khetsun describes what life was like during those troubled years His account is one of the most dispassionate detailed and readable firsthand descriptions yet published of Tibet under the Communist occupation Khetsun talks of his prison experiences as well as the state of civil society following his release and he offers keenly observed accounts of well known events such as the launch of the Cultural Revolution as well as lesser known aspects of everyday life in occupied Lhasa Since Communist China continues to occupy Tibet the facts of this era remain obscure and few of those who lived through it have recorded their experiences at length Khetsun s story will captivate any reader seeking a refreshingly human account of what occurred during the Maoists shockingly brutal regime

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