{"product_id":"my-tibetan-childhood-when-ice-shattered-stone-1","title":"My Tibetan Childhood","description":"In \u003ci\u003eMy Tibetan Chldhood\u003c\/i\u003e, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective 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 family 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 killed in the little-known 1958 Amdo rebellion against the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the armed branch of the Chinese Communist Party. During the next year, the author and his brother were imprisoned in a camp where, after the onset of famine, very few children survived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe real significance of this episodic narrative is the way it shows, through the eyes of a child, the suppressed histories of China's invasion of Tibet. The author's matter-of-fact accounts cast the atrocities that he relays in stark relief. Remarkably, Naktsang lived to tell his tale. His book was published in 2007 in China, where it was a bestseller before the Chinese government banned it in 2010. It is the most reprinted modern Tibetan literary work. This translation makes a fascinating if painful period of modern Tibetan history accessible in English.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32070188564563,"sku":"9780822357261","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780822357261_15353476-2fde-4c14-a545-3877f4d92fe2.jpg?v=1778627726","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-tibetan-childhood-when-ice-shattered-stone-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}