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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (4750)	4/29/2005 5:18:04 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6370

The book "Seven Years in Tibet" by Heinrich Harrer was originally copyrighted in 1953. It's one of my favorite travel books, but I didn't like the movie. You are correct that the book doesn't say much about the Chinese, but I did find more than one paragraph. The last two chapters cover the Chinese invasion, from the point of view of those who did not come into direct contact with the Chinese. The real problems came later, during the occupation after the invasion was completed. My copy is a later edition copyrighted in 1981 with a foreward by the Dalai Lama dated January 29, 1982. It has a four-page epilogue written by Heinrich Harrer in 1966. Here are the first two paragraphs... Epilogue: 1952-1966 The imposition of Chinese socialism was brutal. Monasteries were plundered and monks were carried off to forced labor in China. Thousands of ordinary Tibetans were deported. Thousands of Tibetans were settled on Tibetan land. Tibetan resistance was put down with terrorist reprisal. In 1954 however, that resistance intensified. Khampa tribesment from eastern Tibet organized under a charismatic leader, the forty-four-year-old Andrutshang. Chinese counter-measures were more ruthless than ever. In Fall 1955, the Chinese confiscated nearly the entire livestock population of Tibet and transported it to Peking. Working with disgruntled peasants, they expropriated the larger portion of the arable land of Tibet. The peasant collaborators were deceived, however: The expropriated land was given to Chinese settlers. In conclusion, I don't think you can use Heinrich Harrer to exonerate China's actions in Tibet. -Snow